Water problems worsen at McArthur River
Cameco (CCO-T) has found that the water-infiltration problems first experienced on April 6 at its flagship McArthur…
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Tournigan Gold closes $1.25 million financing
Vancouver –Tournigan Gold (TVC-V) has closed the $1.25 million brokered short form financing that it announced on…
Manhattan gets one-year extension
Vancouver The Peruvian government has granted Manhattan Minerals (MAN-T) a one-year extension to its option agree…
Q4 casts pall over Apollo Gold
Vancouver — Mid-tier miner Apollo Gold (APG-T) felt the impact of non-cash charges during its inaugural year of operation.The Denver-based company suffered a loss of C$4.8 million (or C25 per share)…
Jerritt Canyon deal in Nevada falls through
Shares in Queenstake Resources (QRL-T) plummeted 17, or nearly 45% of their value, in early trading on April 8 after the company said it was unable to settle on a new deal to acquire the Jerritt Cany…
A steady rise in the gold price is more durable Back to earth
The gold price is back where it was last September, around the time that Barbra Streisand started quoting fake verses from Julius Caesar as a prop for her political leanings. Mind you, for all that “b…
Limousine Butte returns to Nevada Pacific
Vancouver — Junior Nevada Pacific Gold (NPG-V) has reacquired sole ownership of the Limousine Butte project in Nevada.The company picked up the remaining 50% interest it did not already own from Newm…
Eldorado Gold posts feasibility for Kisladag
Vancouver — Eldorado Gold (ELD-T) has tabled a positive feasibility study for its wholly owned Kisladag gold project in western Turkey.The study points to an after-tax internal rate of return of 32.6…
Correction (April 14, 2003)
In 2001, Australian consulting firm GRD Minproc — not Canada’s SNC Lavalin (SNC-T) — prepared two definitive feasibility studies of the Rosia Montana gold-silver project in Romania. The project is h…
Editorial Cartoon (April 14, 2003)
Managing legal disputes abroad
Those of us who do business in developing countries often find ourselves thinking: If only it could be like back home. However, if one plans ahead and recognizes, in advance, that one has to do things…
One editorial too far
For a long time I have just overlooked The Northern Miner’s page 4 editorial. It tends not to reflect my own political philosophy, but that is not why I subscribe to The Miner, so it never bothered me…