Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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With the arrival of summer, gold decided to take a breather from its steady 2-month climb, easing up just US55 to reach a London morning fix at US$286.60 per oz. on June 21, after pulling back from t…

The Canadian Venture Exchange index ended the report period June 14-20 up a meager 5.93 points, or 0.2%, at 3,470.43. The mining index led all indices, rising 160.83 points, or 3.9%. to finish at 4,30…

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White Knight Resources (WKR-V) will conduct a 15,000-ft., 10-hole drilling program at the Squaw Creek gold project, in the northern part of Nevada’s Carlin trend.The US$300,000-campaign will be funded…

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Insider trading transactions recently reported by the Ontario Securities Commission in its OSC Bulletin include the following:Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T) — Wayne O’Connor, director, exercised 50,000 o…

A combination of strong zinc prices and the impending depletion of its Sullivan deposit in southeastern B.C. has Cominco (CLT-T) seeking regulatory approval to reopen the Pend Oreille base metal mine …

Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) has filed suit against Colorado-based Canyon Resources (CAU-X) in order to recover US$3.5 million paid to Canyon as part of a 1999 financial support agreement.Canyon was pr…

Junior Cancor Mines (KCR-T) has released an initial resource estimate for zone B at its Gemini zinc-copper property, north of La Sarre in northwestern Quebec.To date, three massive-sulphide lenses hav…

Grupo Mexico has agreed to sell its aggregates division, American Limestone, to CSR America, a division of the CSR Group, for US$211 million.American Limestone is the second division of Asarco to be s…