Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Typhoon Exploration (TOO-V) has intersected significant gold while drilling its Fayolle property, 35 km northeast of Rouyn-Noranda, Que.

Vancouver — Diamond drilling by Lumina Copper (LUM-V) has intersected wide intervals of copper mineralization on the Regalito project in central Chile.

Diamond explorers are returning to Sierra Leone and neighbouring West African countries amid signs that political stability is taking hold in the region after years of civil war.

After enjoying success in the Northwest Territories, some members of the original Snap Lake discovery team formed Nordic Diamonds (NDL-V) and began exploring Scandinavia in search of diamonds.

Vancouver-based DiamondWorks was one of the more controversial diamond producers of the late 1990s, operating two rich mines in Sierra Leone and Angola until both operations were overwhelmed by civil strife and the company was pushed to the edge o…

Vancouver — Development drilling by American Bonanza Gold Mining (BZA-V) at the Copperstone project in Arizona’s La Paz Cty. has returned high gold values.

Vancouver — Ledcor CMI, a British Columbia-based contractor, has agreed to resuscitate the Gibraltar open-pit copper mine and take over operatorship from Taseko Mines (TKO-V). The mine is near Williams Lake i…

We note that Vancouver-based reporter Brent Mudry, who livened the pages (and web pages) of Canada Stockwatch for a decade, has left his keyboard to become a civilian investigator for the Integrated Market Enforcement Team of the Royal Canadian Mo…

Aker Kvaerner wins contract…

London-based Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays, has begun taking part in London’s gold fixing sessions after purchasing a vacant seat on the London Gold Market Fixing board from investment banker NM Rothschild and Sons.

Today, funds play an important part in trading activity at all major metals exchanges. A common view is that investment funds dominate metal price movements and that physical developments are largely irrelevant. While this would concern commodity…