Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Venture dips in first week of 2011

Vancouver – The shortened first week of trading in the New Year saw the S&P TSX Venture Exchange experience a slight hangover after the holiday rally, down 62.46 points between January 4 and 7 to end the period at 2225.39 points.




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Investors shrugged off the tendency to sell at the close of the year causing the TSX Composite index to rise from 13,231.49 points to 13,443.22 for the Dec. 20-31 period. Perhaps investors were emboldened by year-end figures on the Canadian…




Ogden looks golden to Metals Creek

More significant results from the drill at the Ogden gold project in Timmins, Ont., had Metals Creek Resources (mek-v) climbing higher. The results came out of the company’s ongoing 2,500-metre drill program and included a highlight intercept…


Energizer ups Green Giant

With vanadium demand increasing for new battery technologies, London’s Objective Capital Research says Energizer Resources (egz-v) and its Green Giant vanadium project in Madagascar is undervalued.Objective Capital, which states in its 40-page…


Minera Andes pegs Los Azules’ NPV at US$2.9B

Vancouver – Metal prices can make or break a project, and in the case of Minera Andes’ (mai-t) Los Azules copper project in Argentina, a stronger copper price has dramatically increased the potential mine’s value.An updated preliminary economic…


Hana grows Banana resource ahead of PEA

An updated estimate has increased the copper-silver resource at the Ghanzi project in Botswana by more than 40% for Hana Mining (hmg-v), providing a solid foundation for a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) due out in February.The new…


Western Areas to mine underground at Spotted Quoll

After starting nickel production last April at the Tim King open-pit mine, part of Western Areas’ (wsa-t, wsa-a) Spotted Quoll deposit about 400 km east of Perth, the company has decided to mine underground, too. The nickel sulphide explorer…


NovaGold makes run at Copper Canyon partner (January 10, 2011)

Just days before Christmas, NovaGold Resources (ng-t, ng-x) has surprised Copper Canyon Resources (cpy-v) by announcing plans to make an unsolicited takeover bid for the company and its 40% interest in the Copper Canyon copper-gold project in…


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