Short Position Report
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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Rye Patch settles claim dispute with Coeur Mining
VANCOUVER — It took nearly two years, but Vancouver-based junior Rye Patch Gold (RPM-V) has finally reached a legal settlement with U.S.-based silver producer Coeur Mining (CDM-T, CDE-N) over ownership of 400 unpatented mining claims that…
Editorial: This is what a washout looks like
Barrick Gold is the world’s leading gold company, and its Pascua-Lama gold-silver megaproject under construction on the Chilean-Argentine border is its leading development project. And so the gold industry watches in dismay as the major…
U.S. markets, June 24-28
U.S. markets rebounded from fears in the previous period that the Fed would taper off quantitative easing. The markets stabilized after the Fed said that QE would not slow down any time soon. This brought the S&P 500 Index up 18 points to…
TSX Venture Exchange, June 24-28
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index has been slipping for four weeks after dropping 1.6%, or 14.39 points, en route to a 881.40-point weekly close. It has lost around 9%, or 87.66 points, since the first week of June.
Alacer looks to shed Australian mines
There are knocks on the door for Alacer Gold’s (ASR-T) Australian assets, and the company is listening.
Toronto Stock Exchange, June 24-28
The Toronto Stock Exchange closed trading in positive territory, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index gaining 133 points, or 1.11%, to 12,129.11. Despite the boost, the index is down 2.45% year to date.
Royal Nickel’s Dumont reaches feasibility
Royal Nickel (RNX-T) has something to cheer about with a positive feasibility study tabled on its large-scale Dumont nickel-sulphide project in Quebec’s Abitibi region, 25 km west of the city of Amos and 60 km northeast from the…
Seafield envisions a smaller mine at Miraflores
VANCOUVER — Seafield Resources (SFF-V) has an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) in hand for its multi-million ounce Miraflores gold-silver deposit situated 100 km south of Medellin, Colombia, and the Toronto-based junior has…
Larger than life: Weighing the legacy of Marc Rich
One of the greatest, if most controversial, of all commodity traders has died.
Metals, mining and money markets
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, July 2, 2013 Precious MetalsPrice…
Atico completes El Roble resource
When it comes to pedigree in South America’s mining industry, it doesn’t get much better than the storied Ganoza family of Peru, which has owned and operated underground gold, silver and base metal mines in both their homeland and…