Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

News January 2, 2006

Spot Prices Friday, Dec. 23, 2005 Courtesy of Scotiabank

Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)Change…

News January 2, 2006

Fortune acquires Golden Giant mill (January 02, 2006)

Fortune Minerals (FT-T, FTMDF-O) has inked a preliminary deal to acquire the Golden Giant mill in Hemlo, Ont., for use at its 81%-owned Nico gold-cobalt-bismuth deposit, 160 km nort…

News January 2, 2006

LME Warehouse Levels (January 02, 2006)

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Dec. 23, 2005 (change from Dec. 19 in brackets):…

News January 2, 2006

US market gains modest

Resource-related stocks were generally up in the pre-holiday trading period on American equity markets, though the broader market moved sideways. The Standard & Poors 500 index was up 8.74 points…

News January 2, 2006

United Bolero moves to mine Bald Butte (January 02, 2006)

Vancouver — United Bolero Development (UNB-V, UBDVF-O) is beginning mining operations on its Bald Butte molybdenum deposit located in southwestern Montana….

News January 2, 2006

Producer and Dealer Prices (January 02, 2006)

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$3,770/t….

News January 2, 2006

Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (January 02, 2006)

<...

News January 2, 2006

Northern Peru Copper drills hot hole at Galeno (January 02, 2006)

Vancouver — Continuing a trend of pulling long mineralized intersections, Northern Peru Copper (NOC-T, NPUCF-O) delivered its best hole yet from the Galeno project, located about 6…

News January 2, 2006

Who else is going to bring you a Broken Hammer? (January 02, 2006)

Sudbury-based explorer Wallbridge Mining (WM-T, WLBMF-O) has unveiled the first resource estimate for the Broken Hammer polymetallic zone at its Wisner property, a 64/36 joint ventu…

News January 2, 2006

As 2005 grinds to a close, few in the mining industry could say they were surprised by the business’s strong fundamentals this year, but there were more than a few events that prompted a jaw-drop and…

News January 2, 2006

Prediscovery through development

— The following is an excerpt from Mining Explained, published by The Northern Miner….

News January 2, 2006

Miners rebound for Christmas

The TSX Composite Index ended the holiday-shortened Dec. 20-23 report period with a 91.09-point rise to a near-record high of 11,245.37 points. TSX gold miners enjoyed some holiday buying, with the gr…