Crystallex, Rusoro deny project shakeup
Business News Americas, quoting an unnamed official at Venezuela’s basic industries and mining ministry, or Mibam, has reported that the country plans to withdraw the Las Cristinas mining concession f…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Aurelian Trio Our Mining Persons Of The Year
Our “Mining Person of the Year” award for 2008 goes to the trio of Patrick Anderson, Keith Barron and Stephen Leary for their leading roles in the discovery, swift development and sale of Aurelian Res…
Linear Tables KM61 Copper-Moly-Silver Resource
Linear Metals (LRM-T, LMTCF-O) has come out with a resource estimate for its KM61 copper-moly-silver project, near Armstrong, Ont.
Platmin Sells Majority Stake For US$175M
Vancouver — In exchange for US$175 million — enough to finish construction of the Pilanesberg platinum mine in South Africa — cash-strapped Platmin( PPN-T, PPN-l) has agreed to hand over the keys t…
FNX Closes Levack, McCreedy West Nickel Mines
FNX Mining (FNX-t) is halting nickel production at its Levack mine and adjoining McCreedy West mine in Sudbury, Ont., putting 307 people out of work.
OMA Makes Suggestions For Provincial Budget
— The following is the first part of an open letter to The Honourable Dwight Duncan, Ontario’s Minister of Finance, from Chris Hodgson, president of the Ontario Mining Association outlining the OMA’s…
International Quotes (December 29, 2008)
Australia (A$) Dec 19 Dec 16 Change Bendigo Mining 0.16 0.17 -0.01 Kingsgate Cons. 2.80 2.85 -0.05 Lion Selection Ltd 0.73 0.67 0.06 Newcrest Mining 33.50 29.00 4.50 …
Clock Starts Ticking For Geologix
The countdown has begun for Geologix Explorations (GIX-T, GXEXF-o).
Lending Rates (December 29, 2008)
as of 9 a. m. ET. Dec. 19, 2008 (%) Bank of Canada 2.50 Target overnight rate 1.50 Canadian Prime 4.00 U. S. Discount Primary 1.25 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U. S. Prime …
Dividends (December 29, 2008)
Note: Alcoa will pay its quarterly div of US$0.9375 for US$3.75 cmltv pr sh on Jan 1, rec Dec 12. Company Div. Pay Record ($)…
Nautilus Delays Seafloor Mine Development
The turmoil in the world markets has prompted Nautilus Minerals (NUS-T, NUS-l) to delay construction of the mining system for its Solwara 1 seafloor copper-gold-zinc-silver massive sulphide deposit, o…
Exchange Rates (December 29, 2008)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Dec. 15 Dec. 12 Dec. 11 Dec. 10 Dec. 9 US$ in C$ 1.2352 1.2452 1.2183 1.2557 1.2603 C$ in US$ 0.8096 0.8031 0.8208 0.7964 0….