Vale Inco to restart Voisey’s Bay despite strike
Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador plans to train non-unionized supervisors and mill workers to work in the V…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Khan signs MOU with state-owned uranium giant in Mongolia
Khan Resources (KRI-T) has come up with a clever plan to dodge a hostile takeover bid AND meet the requi…
Diversification pays off: New Gold’s US mine is trouble-free
New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) may be tied up in Mexico’s courts over an environmental impact statem…
Barrick Sues Goldcorp, New Gold
Many thought the deal that Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) and New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) made with Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) earlier this month to buy the advanced-stage El Morro project in northern Chile was cleve…
Rounding Up The Roundup
VANCOUVER — The global economic downturn pulled the value of British Columbia’s mining and mineral exploration down in 2009 from the lofty heights it reached in 2008, but the sector remains strong, w…
Focus Sees New Promise In Old Peruvian Mine
SITE VISIT HUARAZ, PERU — The 600-km-long mineral belt that runs along the northern half of Peru’s coastline is home to a lot of metal. Some of the biggest and…
Taseko Gets Provincial Nod For Prosperity
VANCOUVER — Taseko Mines (TKO-T) got a nice share price lift on news the provincial authorities gave the company’s Prosperity copper-gold project in central British Columbia an environmental stamp of…
Duluth JVs With Antofagasta At Nokomis
It’s not very often that a junior Canadian explorer hooks a South American mining giant with a promising deposit — especially when the major has a market cap of US$16 billion. But when it happens, th…
Caerus Shares Crash
Vancouver-based Caerus Resource (CA-V) saw its share price nosedive after the company announced it would not be acquiring key assets in Colombia.
Anatolia Discusses Resettlement Hoops
Of the 50 families living near Anatolia Minerals’ (ANO-T) Copler gold-silver heap-leach project in central Turkey, the company is close to having resettlement agreements with all but one family.
People (January 25, 2010)
Advanced Explorations — Robert Collete appointed a director.
Toronto Stock Exchange -January 12-18
The TSX Composite Index moved lower for the Jan. 12-18 period as oil prices continued to slide on word from OPEC that supplies were strong for the winter period.