Articles by Northern Miner Staff

An Angus Reid survey has found that 25% of Canadians are strong supporters of mining while 14% say they are anti-mining.

I have been following your coverage of the takeover struggle between Cliffs Natural Resources and Noront Resources for Freewest Resources Canada. As we all know, Noront seems to have been eliminated a…

Anatolia Minerals Development — Howard Stevenson appointed VP and COO.

The S&P/TSX composite index slid 72.63 points over the Dec. 15-17 trading period (shortened on account of The Northern Miner’s holiday production schedule).

Investors in companies listed on the S&P/TSX Venture composite index continued their trading frenzy over the Dec. 15-17 reporting period, keeping daily volumes above 125 million trades. The board …

Note:Alcoa will pay US93.75 cents per share on its US$3.75 cmltv prf stk payable Jan 1, record close Dec 11. Freeport Mc- MoRan Copper & Gold will pay $0.60* div with the first payment of $0.15* p…

as of 9 a.m. ET. Dec 18, 2009 (%) Bank of Canada 0.50 Target overnight rate 0.25 Canadian Prime 2.25 U.S. Discount Primary 0.50 U.S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U.S. Prime 3.2…

Australia (A$) Dec. 18 Dec. 15 Change Aquila Resources 8.89 9.1 -0.21 Bendigo Mining 0.24 0.24 0.00 Centennial Coal 3.69 3.53 0.16 Fortescue Res 4.26 4.38 -0.12 Iluka…

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Dec. 21 Dec. 18 Dec. 17 Dec. 16 Dec. 15 US$ in C$ n/a n/a 1.0713 1.0580 1.0620 C$ in US$ n/a n/a 0.9334 0.9452 0.9416 EXCHAN…

Timmins Gold (TMM-V) has produced the first gold from its San Francisco gold mine in northern Mexico.

VANCOUVER — Nayarit Gold (NYG-V) has hit a milestone at its Orion project — the release of its first resource estimate.

VANCOUVER– Kimber Resources (KBR-T, KBX-X) has been drilling the Monterde project in Mexico for almost a decade, slowly adding gold and silver ounces to a growing, three-deposit resource. Now, a new …