Nevsun pushes towards production in Eritrea (April 20, 2010)
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Wildcat Silver updates resource estimate at Hardshell
For the second time this year Wildcat Silver (WS-V) has updated the resource estimate for its 80%-owned Hardsh…
North American Palladium buys project from Agnico-Eagle for $10M
In a move to find new sources of ore for its Sleeping Giant mill 80 km north of Amos, Que., North American Pal…
Cline improves financing following preliminary assessment
Vancouver – Cline Mining (CMK-T) has completed a $45-million financing on the heels of a preliminary assessmen…
Volta pulls golden core from Kiaka
Vancouver – A drill program aimed at defining a maiden resource at the Kiaka project in Burkina Faso continu…
Newcrest still most likely to acquire Lihir
Despite Lihir Gold’s (LGG-T, LGL-T, LIHR-N) rejection of Newcrest Mining’s (NCM-A) offer on April 1, the poten…
Helio examines Porcupine target
Helio Resource (HRC-V) has received some interesting results after testing the Porcupine target at its SMP gol…
Costa Rican court rules to reopen Infinito Gold’s Crucitas project
After a 16-month review and public hearings, Costa Rica’s Supreme Court has ruled that Infinito Gold (IG-V) ca…
San Gold ups its gold discoveries and resources at Rice Lake
With multiple high-grade gold discoveries, two producing gold mines, a functional mill and another mine in the…
DIVIDENDS (April 19, 2010)
Note: Cameco is increasing its annual div to 28 cents per sahre from 26 cents. Alcoa pays qrtly div of US93 cents on cultv prf stk on April 1, close March 12. Merrex Gold shareholders will receive div…
LENDING RATES (April 19, 2010)
as of 9 a.m. ET. April 13, 2010 (%) Bank of Canada 0.50 Target overnight rate 0.25 Canadian Prime 2.25 U.S. Discount Primary 0.50 U.S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U.S. Prime 3…
EXCHANGE RATES (April 19, 2010)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Apr. 12 Apr. 9 Apr. 8 Apr. 7 Apr. 6 US$ in C$ 1.0015 1.0055 1.0020 1.0030 1.0001 C$ in US$ 0.9985 0.9945 0.9980 0.9970 0.999…