Timmins Gold starts up San Francisco mine
Timmins Gold (TMM-V) has started commercial production at the San Francisco gold mine, a past-producing open-pit heap-leach operation in the Arizona-Sonora Desert in the northern portion of the Mexica…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Volta Resources pulls golden core from Kiaka
VANCOUVER — A drill program aimed at defining a maiden resource at the Kiaka project in Burkina Faso continues to produce near-surface lengths of gold mineralization for Volta Resources (VTR-T).
Tax news wallops Aussie miners
Australia arguably slipped from being a pro-mining country to an anti-mining one in early May, as the left-leaning federal government there unveiled sweeping plans to change the island nation into one…
Taking stock of Quebec’s new mining taxes
The Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand’s budget on March 30, 2010, significantly revamped the Quebec mining duty regime with a view to mitigating the provincial deficit.
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Antimony: Mid-mkt US$9,033.33/t.
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CANADIAN GOLD MUTUAL FUNDS (May 10, 2010)
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DIVIDENDS (May 10, 2010)
The board of directors has declared an eligible dividend of $0.10 per common share payable on June 15, 2010 to common shareholders of record as at May 31, 2010.
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