Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

News March 29, 2004

Miners dodge market slide

A generally poor report period for U.S. equity markets didn’t extend to the mining stocks, which were mostly higher over the five trading days March 17-23 as the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 index both fell slightly more than 1%.

News March 29, 2004

JQA extended 100 metres

Drilling by Canarc Resource (CCM-T) at the Benzdorp property in Suriname has extended the known length of the JQA gold-copper stockwork by a further 100 metres.

News March 29, 2004

Exchange Rates (March 29, 2004)

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News March 29, 2004

Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (March 29, 2004)

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News March 29, 2004

Chinese metal demand accelerates

Yet again defying consensus predictions of a slowdown, metals demand appears to have accelerated in the first two months of 2004.

News March 29, 2004

Juniors eye prospects in Mongolia

Two unrelated junior companies from the eastern and western shores of Canada are heading to Mongolia to explore their newly acquired mineral properties.

News March 29, 2004

Tensions drive safe-haven investments

Vancouver — Terrorist retaliation fears against the U.S. over Israel’s shocking assassination of Hamas’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, helped fuel bond and bullion prices over the week ended March 23. The TSX Venture Exchange S&P composi…

News March 29, 2004

Wayside clarifies scoping study

A review by the British Columbia Securities Commission has prompted International Wayside Gold Mines (IWA-V) to clarify previous technical disclosures relating to its Cow Mountain and Bonanza Ledge gold properties in the provinc…

News March 29, 2004

Wheaton River boosts output, cuts costs

A few years ago, Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) was a small, struggling gold producer with a high-cost mine facing its last days of production. Today the company churns out more than 500,000 gold-equivalent ounces annually at a…

News March 26, 2004