Articles by Northern Miner Staff

VANCOUVER — Terra Ventures (TAS-V) wants to divvy up its property interests into two companies. Arguing it isn’t getting value for assets beyond its 10% production carried interest on Hathor Explorat…

Ontario and British Columbia will be harmonizing their provincial retail sales taxes with the federal goods and services tax (GST) on July 1, 2010. That means that both of these provinces will abandon…

VANCOUVER — Encompassing a swath of exploration and mining projects, the Santa Cruz provincial government in Argentina has designated roughly half the province’s area as a region of special interest …

VANCOUVER — It appears that Grupo Mexico (GMBXF-O, GMEXICOB-M) has dodged a US$10- billion bullet.

VANCOUVER — Privately held Argonaut Gold has closed a brokered private placement meant to fund its proposed takeover of Castle Gold (CSG-V).

Adriana Resources — Chairman Michael Beley resigned; CFO and director Richard Barclay resigned; Norman Calder appointed CFO; Anthony Patriarco appointed interim chairman; Colin Benner appointed a dir…

In our article about the Association for Mineral Exploration in British Columbia (AME BC) awards ( T. N.M., Dec. 7-13/09), we incorrectly stated the date of the dinner. The dinner will take place on W…

as of 9 a.m. ET. Dec 8, 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 3.25…

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Dec. 7 Dec. 4 Dec. 3 Dec. 2 Dec. 1 US$ in C$ 1.0511 1.0517 1.0542 1.0468 1.0432 C$ in US$ 0.9514 0.9508 0.9486 0.9553 0.9586…

Australia (A$) Dec. 8 Dec. 1 Change Aquila Resources 8.95 10.29 -1.34 Bendigo Mining 0.24 0.25 -0.01 Centennial Coal 3.31 3.36 -0.05 Fortescue Res 4.21 4.27 -0.06 Ilu…

Osisko Mining (OSK-T) has signed a deal with Orex Exploration (OX-V) that includes spending $8 million in exploration by 2013 to acquire up to a 60% interest in the Goldboro project, near Antigonish, …

VANCOUVER– Richfield Ventures (RVC-V) is reigniting interest in a gold-silver prospect in northern British Columbia by drilling lengthy intercepts carrying good mineralization.