Articles by Northern Miner Staff

With just five subindices ending barely in the red, the Toronto Stock Exchange began the week with a 64.01-point ri…

A research program in Australia delivered A$295 million in direct benefits to the minerals-processing industry over the past six years, based on an investment of about A$10 million.

There were modest gains in the U.S. stock markets over the report period May 26-June 1, with the S&P 500 index adding 8.15 points to close at 1,121.20 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 85.03 points to finish at 10,202.65.

Emgold’s subsidiary, Golden Bear Ceramics, will build a Ceramext pilot plant, designed to produce ceramic tiles and bricks from mine tailings. The process is currently at the bench-scale testing phase.

At the beginning of April this space was given over to an editorial entitled “Consolidation, or not,” which questioned whether there was much consolidation left to be done in the gold industry. Within an hour of our placing that column, Iamgold an…

It is a nice change indeed to be responding to the recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers report that describes the British Columbia mining industry as having had a positive year.

The boards of directors at Iamgold (IMG-T) and Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) have rejected co-ordinated bids by Golden Star Resources (GSC-T) and Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE…

A feasibility study commissioned by TVI Pacific (TVI-T) has determined that the oxide resource at the Canatuan massive sulphide deposit on Mindanao in the Philippines can be mined economically as an open pit.