Articles by Northern Miner Staff

By expanding one of its concentrators, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) has achieved record throughput levels at the Grasberg copper-gold mine in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.The company, through 85%-o…

Restructuring has paid off in higher second-quarter earnings for troubled base metal miner Inmet Mining (IMN-T), which posted a profit of $25.2 million for the three months ended June 30.The company e…

The launch of the European Central Bank in July and the approach of European monetary union raise a number of interesting possibilities for gold in the official sector. At the same time, the lack of t…

An emergency services team from Placer Dome’s 50%-owned Porgera gold mine will remain in the Aitape region on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea to aid victims of tidal waves that destroyed four v…

Reports released by the Ontario Securities Commission show that seven directors of First Dynasty Mines (FDM-T) were granted options in June.Marcus Randolph acquired 395,000 options at 20 cents to hold…

Toronto-based Romios Gold Resources (RGRI-C) has agreed to buy the Scossa project in Pershing Cty., northwestern Nevada.The agreement calls for the junior to pay US$82,500 cash and issue 100,000 share…