One only has to look at the numbers to see that this past January was a hair-curling month on the Toronto Stock Exchange. With 603.1 million shares trading hands that month, a new all- time record was…
Before the wheels fell off the platinum bandwagon earlier this year, the price of the precious-industrial metal reached as high as $670(US) per oz. Its slump to $460 was quick but it was far from pain…
The Adams Club, McGill University’s department of geological sciences, will be host of a symposium March 6 in the Royal Bank auditorium, Place Ville Marie, Montreal. It’s titled Ore Deposits in Metamo…
It looked like a Who’s Who of mining the other night at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre, when ballerina Vanessa Harwood gave her final performance with the National Ballet of Canada. Amongst the appreciative…
Probe Mines was a winner this week, climbing to 58 cents before settling back to 50 cents -55 cents at the close. The company’s main asset is a healthy 5% net smelter royalty in the Goldex Mines’ gol…
From a letter to The Northern Miner from Gilles Barbery, director, department of mining and metallurgy, Laval University, Quebec. There is a clear need to optimize the performance of mining depart men…
Lead’s recent plunge on the London Metal Exchange signals the end of the price uptrend which spanned the last several months. And one of the major factors in the drop price will be a 3% decline in the…
As every reporting period comes and goes, the balance sheet of U.S.-based Battle Mountain Gold grows stronger and stronger. And this latest round of reporting does not disappoint. For the year ended D…
The 200-ton gold mill in Scadding Twp north of Sudbury will likely produce significantly more gold from the Norstar mine than was originally projected, The Northern Miner has gathered. According to pr…
Toronto and Vancouver-listed Total Erickson Resources has entered into an agreement with John G. McDonald to acquire his controlling interest in Canadian Oil and Gas Funds (COGF), which holds the majo…
A 12,000-ft diamond drilling program is meeting with encouragement at the Bootleg Lake property held by Vista Mines. Located 5 km south of Flin Flon, on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, the Bootleg p…
I would like to draw your attention to an error in the article McGill, Polytech plan co-op course in mining engineering, in the Jan 26 issue of The Northern Miner. The concluding paragraph in that art…
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