Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drilling at the High Lake West Zone base metal deposit in Nunavut have intersected wide intervals of massive sulphide mineralization.

Partners Etruscan Resources (EET-T) and Semafo (SMF-T) expect to pour their first gold at the Samira Hill project in Niger in early September, now that commissioning of the 6,000-tonne-per-day carbon-in-leach…

Vancouver — Northgate Minerals (NGX-T) delivered greatly improved earnings in the second quarter, coupled with record low net cash costs for gold production at the Kemess South mine in British Columbia.

Vancouver — Drilling at Viceroy Exploration‘s (VYE-V) Gualcamayo project in west-central Argentina continues to cut impressive gold intersections.

London-based Oxus Gold (OXS-L) will stamp its first dividend cheque from the Amantaytau mine in Uzbekistan, which began pouring gold in December 2003.

Vancouver — With the aim of bringing its Cantung tungsten mine in the Yukon back into production, North American Tungsten (NTC-V) is trying to raise up to $7.5 million through a private placement brokered by Union Securities.

There wasn’t much motion in U.S. equity markets over the report period July 28-Aug. 3 as the major indices posted only fractional gains. But the resource sector was way ahead of the broader market, with most mining equities higher.