Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (March 06, 2006)

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Date Feb. 27 Feb. 24 Feb. 23 Feb. 22 Feb. 21 High Low
S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 2543.33 2558.38
as of 4 pm ET, Feb. 24, 2006 (%)
Bank of Canada 3.75
Target overnight rate 3.50
Canadian Prime 5.25

Gold Hawk finances Tamboraque

Vancouver — A proposed $14-million private placement should provide Gold Hawk Resources (CGK-V, CGHRF-O) with sufficient resources to complete the acquisition of the Tamboraque polym…


Breakwater Resources' Bouchard-Hbert zinc mine, which closed last year, represents the company's past while a trio of operating mines -- Myra Falls in B.C., El Mochito in Honduras and El Toqui in Chile -- point to the future.

Breakwater turns a corner

Breakwater Resources (BWR-T, BWLRF-O) is taking full advantage of a soaring zinc price to reinvest in its existing mines, look for acquisitions, and investigate the hidden potential of anomalies disco…




Uganda’s minerals industry getting back into gear

Kampala, Uganda — At one time, the annual value of Uganda’s mineral product was far greater than that of its East African neighbours, Tanzania and Kenya. This came to a halt during the political unre…


An old headframe at the Lynn Lake nickel mine, which has been stripped of most of its supporting infrastructure over the years.

Lynn Lake: the next revived nickel mine?

After spending seven months digitizing and analyzing a truckload of paper data, Seymour Exploration (SEZ-V) is testing the resulting targets on its Lynn Lake property in northern Mani…




Establishing baseline environmental data at the mine site, using equipment such as this to build meteorolgical records, is an important part of environmental permitting.

Need for balanced approach to exploration

The natural focus at the initial stages of exploration is to delineate the area of interest and demonstrate the financial feasibility of a mining project. However, mining companies need to make enviro…



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