Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Queensland’s new coal royalties upset miners

Australia’s biggest miners say the Queensland government’s move to hike royalties on coal operations will cause more job losses and project cancellations in the troubled sector.


TSX Venture surges Sept. 10-14

VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index rose 41.4 points or 3.24% to close near 52-week highs at 1,318.1 points during the Sept. 10-14 trading sessions. An announcement by U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on a third…


TSX catches the QE3 wave

The next round of quantitative easing (QE) finally came and it was good news for commodity prices and the commodity heavy TSX Composite Index, which grew by 242 points to 12,499.47 points for the Sept. 10-14 period.


US stocks up on QE3, Sept. 10-14 week

U.S. stocks gained for a second consecutive week, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index up to the highest level since December 2007, as the U.S. Federal Reserve unleashed a third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, to prop up the…


An aerial view of a drill pad at Torex Gold Resources' Morelos project in Mexico. Photo by Torex Gold Resources

Torex plans 2015 start-up for Morelos

Torex Gold Resources (TXG-T) shares saw heavy trading after the company released a bankable feasibility study for its Morelos project in Mexico’s prolific Guerrero gold belt, as well as more drill results from the project’s…


Midas Gold director John Wakeford looks at core at the Golden Meadows gold project in Idaho. Photo by Midas Gold

Midas’ golden dreams for Golden Meadows

Midas Gold (MAX-T) has outlined a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Golden Meadows gold project in Idaho, 153 km northeast of Boise.“It’s a very mining-friendly jurisdiction,” Stephen Quin,…


Paramount grows resource at San Miguel

Paramount Gold and Silver (PZG-T, PZG-X) has bulked-up its Mexican resources in a serious way. The company released an updated resource estimate for its wholly owned San Miguel project in the country, boosting indicated gold resources by 547%,…


An aerial view of the landscape at Rainy River Resources' eponymous gold project in northwestern Ontario. Photo by Rainy River Resources

Rainy River adds more shine to PEA

Rainy River Resources’ (RR-T) updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) proposes a smaller, higher-grade and lower-cost gold mine at its namesake project in northwestern Ontario. Given the current negative market conditions, the…


Short position reports

TSX Short Positions         Short positions outstanding at Aug 31/12 (with changes from Aug 15/12).      Largest Short Positions         Security Ticker Total Short Change Lundin Mining  LUN 44646706 476706…


Exchange rates

EXCHANGE RATES CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Sept 10 Sept 7 Sept 6 Sept 5 Sept 4   US$ in C 0.9762 0.9778 0.9825 0.9902 0.9863  …


Workers drilling in the pit at Petaquilla Minerals' Molejon gold mine in Panama, 130 km west of Panama City. Photo by Petaquilla Minerals

Inmet bids for Petaquilla

In what looks like a move to tidy up the neighbourhood, Inmet Mining (IMN-T) is offering to buy Petaquilla Minerals (PTQ-T) for $112 million in cash or equity. Petaquilla operates the Molejon gold mine in Panama, adjacent to Inmet’s Cobre…


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