Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Over the past 25 years, Teck has developed, or participated in developing, more than a dozen mines in Canada, including five in British Columbia. However, the company’s next four mining operations und…

On the heels of its friendly takeover offer for Rio Algom (ROM-T), London-based Billiton has signed a letter of intent with Copper Ridge Explorations (KRX-V) to participate in the evaluation an…

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Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$275.30+$2.70Silver$ 4.95+$0.06…

Heikki Limion, a renowned geophysicist who lived in Toronto, has died. He was 58.Limion was born in Estonia in 1942. Shortly thereafter, his family fled to Germany and they eventually arrived in Canad…

Casting the spotlight on base metals once again, Inco has offered to buy back its Class VBN shares for $195 million in cash and 11.7 million warrants. The shares equate to a 25% stake in cash flow fro…

Gold Funds as of August 31, 2000Dynamic MutualCentral FundNet Value$12.75$5.42Price$7…

ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N 157766 34.50 32.56 33.81 +…

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,750/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.20/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.20/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$14.20-16.00/lb.Copper: Comex Sept. US$0.9125/lb.Indium: …

Copper and aluminum prices moved sharply higher during the report period Aug. 28-Sept. 1, with the former hurdling over the US$1,900-per-tonne resistance level and the latter gaining US$50 per tonne o…

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