Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Canaco defends turf and releases strong drill results

Canaco Resources (CAN-V) continues its surge up the market on the back of stellar drill results and the successful defense of its turf in Tanzania. The latest round of assays helped push the company’s share price up 3% or 16¢ to $6.10 on…


Pretivm Resources is off to a good start

After twenty-five years at the helm of Silver Standard Resources (SSO-T, SSRI-Q), Robert Quartermain is back in action with a start-up company called Pretivm Resources (PVG-T) that listed in December at $6.00 per share and is trading today at…


Ivanhoe and Altynalmas boost resource at Bakyrchik

A 50% increase in indicated resources at the Bakyrchik deposit “bodes well” for the definitive feasibility study that is due out in the second quarter of 2011, Altynalmas Gold and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q) say.


Richmont posts resource for Wasamac property

Since joining the ranks of gold producers in 1991, Richmont Mines (RIC-T, RIC-X) has produced more than 1.2 million ounces of gold from its operations in Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and by the middle of this year expects to add production…



TSX approaches pre-recession levels

By looking only at the TSX Composite Index, the recession would appear to be miles away. The Index was up 2% or 288 points for the Feb. 14-18 and actually got within 6% shy of the 15,000 level that it peaked at before the recession hit.


U.S. markets strong, Feb. 14-18

While unrest in several countries in the Middle East and in Libya in particular put pressure on global markets and drove some investors out of riskier assets like equities in search of safer havens, U.S. stock markets overall proved remarkably…


The state of mining in South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa – The mood at the 2011 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa was markedly upbeat as the industry experiences booming growth, but the host nation was left wondering how it had missed out.


Venture climbs Feb. 14-18

Vancouver – The S&P TSX Venture Exchange made respectable gains in the Feb. 14-18 week, up 66.12 points after climbing all five days to close at 2423.68 points. Volume averaged 202 million shares traded daily, while 143 companies hit…



Entre Gold starts strong at Ann Mason

Entrée Gold’s (ETG-T, EGI-X) first diamond drill hole at its 100%-owned Ann Mason  porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in western Nevada’s Yerington district returned 988 metres of copper mineralization in what Greg Crowe, the…


Canaco Resources explores Ethiopia (February 21, 2011)

Canaco Resources (CAN-V) may be best known for its Magambazi gold discovery in Tanzania’s Handeni district, where last December drill results yielded intercepts of 53.2 metres of 9.51 grams gold per tonne and 17.4 metres of 6.1 grams gold, but…


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