Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Editorial Cartoon (May 31, 2004)
Dear silver investor
We at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) normally reply to private correspondence with a private response. We are, therefore, attempting to respond directly to about 500 of you who have written to us expressing concern that the p…
Aussie deaths prompt gov’t visit
Management officials at BHP Iron Ore in Australia are slated to meet with Western Australia’s development minister, Clive Brown, following fatal accidents at two of the company’s sites.
Noranda refinery workers vote for strike
Union workers at Noranda’s Canadian Copper Refinery in Montreal have voted in favour of going on strike.
Corriente updates Mirador (May 31, 2004)
Vancouver — The results of a 27-hole drill program by
Redcorp drill-tests Tulsequah Chief
Vancouver — Assays are in hand for the first two holes of a drill program at the Tulsequah Chief mine property, near Atlin in northwestern British Columbia.
WMC studies Olympic Dam
Aussie nickel major
African Gold fires up drills in Ghana
Toronto-based
Pine Valley gains funds for coal mine
Vancouver — A buoyant market for metallurgical coal is making it easy for Western Canadian coal companies to place new mines into production. The list includes the Willow Creek coal mine, scheduled to begin operations later this summer.
New gold rush in Western Australia
Anyone dismissing the gold potential of the two Western Australian gold mining centres of Sandstone and Gidgee, which are only 90 km apart, will have to think again, as the area appears set to experience a gold rush.
Fronteer teams with Teck in Turkey
Vancouver —