Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Is gold the mortal enemy of central bankers? Lawrence Parks, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME), believes so. What’s more, he says the world’s banker…

A hole drilled by Guyana Goldfields (YGI-V) at the Aurora concession in Guyana, South America, has returned 63 ft. grading 1.35 oz. gold per ton.The program is testing the strike length of the Aleck H…

The operators of the Greens Creek polymetallic mine, in southeastern Alaska, have resumed exploration drilling following a brief hiatus.Over the past year, Kennecott Minerals, a division of the mine’s…

Mineral exploration frauds such as Bre-X Minerals in Indonesia, combined with the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, are chiefly responsible for the ongoing slump in junior resource stocks, acc…

Gold Funds as of Oct 19, 2000Dynamic MutualCentral FundNet Value$11.88$5.44Price$7.00…

During the report period Oct. 16-20, all the base metals listed on the London Metal Exchange (LME) suffered declines in their weekly average prices. Once again, nickel and zinc prices were hardest-hit…

The Toronto Stock Exchange recovered strongly over the report period Oct. 18-24, but the mining stocks were largely left in the dust. The TSE 300 composite index closed at 10,352.10 points, up 219.54 …

Encouraged by positive drill results, Summo Minerals (SMA-T) has ordered a prefeasibility study of its Terrazas copper-zinc property in northern Mexico.Since drilling began, in July, Summo has drilled…

Gold-Ore Resources (GOZ-V) has received encouraging results from trenching on its San Marcial silver-gold property, 90 km east of Mazatlan, Mexico.Two main targets have been developed on the 1,250-ha …

Americans will troop to the polling booths in early November, and expectations are that Canadians will be marking ballots in a federal election a few weeks later. But unlike the U.S., where presidenti…

Steven Dean, president of Teck and executive chairman of PacMin Mining, will speak at a luncheon hosted by the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum on Oct. 26…