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VP of exploration Leo Hathaway and chief geologist Fabian Figueroa examine core from the Las Guias zone at Relincho.

Global Copper unearths a giant

SITE VISIT VALLENAR, CHILE — “This is the biggest project in Chile right now, and it’s the biggest project in the world being worked by a junior,” says David Strang….




BY VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN SPECIAL TO THE NORTHERN MINER

Staking continues apace in ‘Ring of Fire’

The Noront Resources (NOT-V, NOSOF-O) base metal discovery has spawned a staking rush in the swampy lowlands of northeastern Ontario, just southwest of James Bay. As of mid-February, juniors had stake…


Overview of Continental Minerals' Xietongmen copper-gold project in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.

Shared goals, different paths

BEIJING, CHINA–As Chinese mining firms step up their acquisitions of resource assets overseas, foreign mining companies are continuing to look at China for opportunities. But it is a still a country …


Midlands Minerals president and CEO, Kim Harris, examines core samples at one of the company's properties in Ghana.

Midlands Minerals grows in Ghana

Kim Harris is used to hunting in elephant country. As the former director for Africa of the Ontario International Corp., she spent more than a decade crisscrossing the continent looking for business o…


U.S. Markets (March 03, 2008)

A deepening housing slump and rising consumer prices all point to more trouble ahead for equity markets in the United States. According to a UBS research report released on Feb. 20, the U.S. economy i…


TSX Venture Exchange (March 03, 2008)

Buoyed by strengthening precious and base metal prices, the junior mining-dominated S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index saw a strong week over the Feb. 19-25 trading session, gaining 101.25 points to …



Drilling tests the depth extension of gold-mineralized quartz vein structures at Kodiak Exploration's Hercules project, in Ontario's Beardmore-Geraldton greenstone belt.

Kodiak invigorates forgotten gold camp

SITE VISIT BEARDMORE, ONT. — Multi-ounce gold grades from Kodiak Exploration’s (KXL-V, KXLAF-O) Hercules project, located in the B e a rdmore – Geraldton greenstone belt of northwestern Ontario, have…


BY VIVIAN DANIELSON SPECIAL TO THE NORTHERN MINER

Greystar poised to build Colombia’s flagship mine

VANCOUVER–Defining a gold resource of 10.15 million oz. based on 717 drill holes totalling 244,443 metres is a major accompl i s h – ment for any junior company aspiring to make the leap from explora…


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