Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Fears that the U.S. economy may be headed for a significant downturn sent cyclical resource stocks into a tailspin, causing the TSE to post a loss during the 5-day report period ended Jan. 31. The com…

The pool keeps getting deeper and deeper as western markets attempt to quantify the “bottom” in the term “bottom fishing.” The Vancouver Stock Exchange resource index plunged more than 62 points to cl…

BGR Central Net Value $16.47 $6.62 Price $13.13 $6.625 Discount 20.30% Premium 0.1% Value $129,253,000 $119,907,863…

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $376.25 – $5.45 Silver* $4.68 – $0.13 Platinum* $415.50 – $2.40 Nickel** $4.38 – $0.30 Lead** $0.29 – $0.02 Copper $1.33 – $0.06 Zinc $0.51 – $0.03 Courtesy of Scotiaban…

Following a 1-new-for 5-old-share consolidation and a name change, Quebec Explorers has been re-listed as QEX Resources (CDN). QEX holds interests in six properties, three of which have a mineral inve…

Castle Minerals (CTN:VSE) has changed its name to Castle Rock Exploration (CTP:VSE) on a 1-new-for-2-old-share basis.

During the past year, one of the foreign regions most attractive to Canadian miners has been West Africa. Senior and junior companies alike have been lured to the area by the prospect of discovering r…

The gold potential of Mali is attracting widespread interest now that Anglo American of South Africa and a Canadian partner plan to proceed with the US$250-million Sadiola Hill mine project in the lan…

An atmosphere of political stability and economic reform, coupled with underexplored and underdeveloped mineral resources, is attracting an ever growing number of Canadian mining companies to Tanzania…

Mining in Zimbabwe has been an important part of the economy since the 14th century, when gold mining created the wealth that built the political state of Great Zimbabwe. With the arrival of Cecil Rho…

The country of Namibia is one of a growing number of African nations interested in attracting North American mining groups to invest in its mining sector. And it is making the case that companies shou…

A wholly owned subsidiary of VSE-listed Namibian Minerals Corp. (Namco) has met charter terms for a vessel which will be deployed in a diamond bulk-sampling program within Namibian and South African w…