The Silver Wheaton Success Story
VANCOUVER– The basics of the Silver Wheaton (SLW-T) story are fairly well known — a small group from Wheaton River Minerals broke away after the Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) merger to found a company built …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Citibank Weighs In On Long-Term Pricing
Rising structural costs, limited projects, riskier geographies and infrastructure bottlenecks will all put “upside pressure” on long-term commodity prices, Citigroup Global Markets asserts in a Jan. 1…
Eldorado To Restart White Mountain
A dispute over alleged water contamination that shut down Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T) White Mountain gold mine in China’s Jilin province for five months has been resolved and the company says it expects t…
It’s Raining Gold For Rainy River
Thick gold-rich intercepts helped gather some momentum behind Rainy River Resources’ (RR-V) stock.
Vale Inco To Restart Voisey’s Bay Despite Strike
Vale’s (VALE-N) nickel subsidiary Vale Inco plans to train non-unionized supervisors and mill workers to work in the Voisey’s Bay open-pit nickel mine in Labrador after contract talks with striking mi…
White Gold Cracks 1M Oz. Barrier
With the global mineral exploration industry converging on Vancouver for the annual Mineral Exploration Roundup convention, the third trading week of the year was filled with explorers touting their l…
Technical Analysis Report: Big Gold Miners (February 01, 2010)
With gold still grabbing the lion’s share of the headlines in the investment community, we thought it would be prudent in this week’s installment of The Technical Analysis Report to examine major gold…
KEGS Issues Call For Papers For 2010 PDAC Symposium
The Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society has issued a call for papers for its 2010 PDAC Symposium, All That Glitters: Geophysical Exploration for Precious Metals.
Toronto Stock Exchange -Jan. 19-25
Miners helped drag down the TSX composite index over the Jan. 19-25 trading period in a serious way. The TSX itself fell 3.3%, or 396.03 points, to 11,354.51 points while the Capped Metals and Mining …
TSX Venture Exchange -Jan. 19-25
A week of losses all but erased the gains the S&P TSX Venture composite index had made in the first two weeks of the new year — over the Jan. 19-25 trading period the board lost 58.87 points to c…
U.S. Markets -Jan. 19-25
The Jan. 19-25 trading period was one many investors in U.S.-listed equities probably would like to forget. The Dow Jones industrial average sank 528.57 points or 4.93% to finish at 10,196.86, while t…
Dividends (February 01, 2010)
Note:Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold will pay $0.60* div with the first payment of $0.15* paid on Feb. 1, 2010.Cameco is increasing its annual div to 28 cents per sahre from 26 cents. Alcoa pays qr…