Barrick sells another asset in Australia
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE:ABX) is peeling back its presence in Australia, as it prepares to take another hit on its balance sheet due to Pascua-Lama.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Mark O’Dea’s ‘science of discovery’ at Roundup
VANCOUVER — Over the past decade Mark O’Dea has become one of the strongest members of a new generation of explorers bent on making discoveries and running public mining companies the “right” way.
Guarded optimism for 2014 from PI Financial’s Jim Mustard
VANCOUVER — In the final talk of the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia’s (AME BC) Roundup conference, PI Financial’s vice-president of mining investment banking Jim Mustard gave the audience reason to…
Toronto Stock Exchange, Jan. 27-31
The Canadian market fell slightly during the week after the latest move by the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut its stimulus program by another US$10 billion per month, given signs of improvement in the U.S. economy.
U3O8 eyes JV with Chubut gov’t at Laguna Salada
VANCOUVER — There are a myriad of issues that can raise trip up mine developers in Argentina, but it looks like Toronto-based U3O8 Corp.’s (TSX: UWE; US-OTC: UWEFF) Laguna Salada uranium–vanadium project in Chubut province…
Toronto Stock Exchange, Jan. 20-24
Disappointing manufacturing data in China, battered currencies in many emerging markets and renewed anxiety over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plan to taper its bond purchases slammed many North American equities. The S&P/TSX Composite…
Endeavour Silver hits all the right notes in 2013
VANCOUVER — An impressive fourth quarter capped off a strong year for mid-tier producer Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) at its trio of Mexican silver mines. The company announced on Jan. 9 that its fourth-quarter production…
Milestones ahead for Kennady Diamonds in NWT
Kennady Diamonds (TSXV: KDI; US-OTC: KDIAF) — whose share price soared 277% to $5.24 per share in 2013 — is among 16 junior companies Haywood Securities believes offer short-term investment opportunity with strong management teams,…
Correction
The item “2014 PDAC Awards” on page B20 of the PDAC preconvention supplement (T.N.M., Jan. 20–26/14 and Jan. 20–Feb. 2/14) included two spelling errors in the identification of the Skookum Jim Award winner: Jim MacLeod,…
US markets, Jan. 20-24
Investors soured on U.S. equities over the holiday-shortened period, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 580 points to 15,879.11, the S&P 500 Index lost 51 points to 1,790.29 and the Nasdaq Composite Index was off 94 points to 4,128.17.
Editorial: Falling loonie resets expectations
The free fall of the Canadian dollar, which has only accelerated in 2014, undoubtedly has the CFOs of Canada’s mining companies breaking out the spreadsheets and tallying up the pluses and minuses of the new, low-loonie environment.
Premier Clark opens Roundup, extends flow-through tax credit
VANCOUVER — With thick fog blanketing Vancouver, B.C. Premier Christy Clark kicked off the city’s biggest mining conference of the year — Mineral Exploration Roundup 2014 — with a speech that included a commitment to…