Articles by Northern Miner Staff




Venture stumbles in Feb. 22-25 week

Vancouver – A shortened week filled with fluctuating oil prices and mid-east unrest saw the S&P TSX Venture Exchange drop 48.06 points between Feb. 22 and 25 to close at 2,375.62 as two days of losses outweighed two days of gains.


Drilling at the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska. Credit: Northern Dynasty Minerals

Pebble PEA makes a big splash (February 28, 2011)

Vancouver – February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped…


Equinox makes surprise bid for Lundin (February 28, 2011)

A hostile bid by Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) for Lundin Mining worth about $4.8 billion in cash and shares could derail a friendly merger proposed between Lundin and Inmet Mining (IMN-T, IEMF-O) that is scheduled for a shareholder vote on…



TSX down with all the rest, Feb. 21-25

The Toronto Stock Exchange was closed for the Family Day holiday on Monday Feb. 21. When trading resumed, the TSX composite index dropped 70.98 points or 0.50% to finish the abbreviated trading week at 14,052.13, while the S&P/TSX Capped…



NovaGold Resources  The Copper Canyon project in northern B.C.

Copper Canyon rejects NovaGold bid

 Copper Canyon Resources’ (cpy-v) board has unanimously rejected as inadequate a hostile takeover bid launched by joint-venture partner NovaGold Resources (ng-t, ng-x).


Sunridge Gold Drill rigs on the Debarwa deposit at Sunridge Gold's Asmara gold-copper-silver project in Eritrea.

Sunridge hits more high-grade copper-gold

 Sunridge Gold (sgc-v) has released its second round of drill results in two weeks, with more significant gold-copper-silver hits at its Asmara project in Eritrea. 



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