Articles by Northern Miner Staff




New Dawn In Zimbabwe

New Dawn Mining (ND-T) plans to take its 100%-owned Turk gold mine in Zimbabwe out of care and maintenance and put it back into production, says the company’s president and CEO, Ian Saunders.


Exchange Rates (March 23, 2009)

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Mar. 16 Mar. 13 Mar. 12 Mar. 11 Mar. 10 US$ in C$ 1.2724 1.2749 1.2905 1.2807 1.2797 C$ in US$ 0.7859 0.7844 0.7749 0.7808 0…


Lending Rates (March 23, 2009)

as of 9 a. m. ET. March 10, 2009 (%) Bank of Canada 0.75 Target overnight rate 0.50 Canadian Prime 2.50 U. S. Discount Primary 0.50 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U. S. Prime 3…


International Quotes (March 23, 2009)

Australia (A$) March 10 March 3 Change Bendigo Mining 0.21 0.21 0.00 Kingsgate Cons. 4.65 4.93 -0.28 Lion Selection Ltd 0.90 0.80 0.10 Newcrest Mining 30.75 31.53 -0.78…


Copper Fox And Lions Gate Consider Merger

VANCOUVER — Copper Fox Metals (CUU-V, CPFXF-O)and Lions Gate Metals (LGM-V) have signed a letter of intent to merge that would see Copper Fox shareholders receive 0.094 of a Lions Gate share for each…


MacTung Shows Strength For NA Tungsten

VANCOUVER — It will cost almost $400 million to build an underground mine at one of the largest undeveloped tungsten deposits in the world — North American Tungsten’s (NTC-V, NATUF-O) Mac- Tung — b…


A New Tool For Community Development

Conventionally, mining companies have wanted to take immediate measures to alleviate the poverty they observe near their mining projects in developing countries. Typically, they have done this by buil…



Bronson Slope Gets A Second Try

VANCOUVER — A preliminary economic assessment of Skyline Gold’s (SK-V, SYGCF-O) Bronson Slope gold-copper-silver project in northern British Columbia says the deposit could support a profitable mine …


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