ATW hits visible gold in new Burnakura zone
Vancouver – News of visible gold in high-grade intersections at ATW Ventures’ (ATW-V) Burnakura project in Western …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Oro Gold gains on Mexican intercepts
Vancouver – As share prices tumbled down all around, Oro Gold Resources (OGR-V) showed what kind of news it took to…
Citi cuts commodity forecasts for 2009-10
Citi Investment Research has lowered some of its commodity price forecasts due to the U.S. financial crisis, slowin…
Robert Friedland calls copper the “real gold”
Describing many of the world’s current copper projects as “old ladies waiting in bed to die,” Robert Friedland, chi…
Iamgold in takeover bid for Euro Ressources
Gold miner Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) has launched an all-cash bid to take over gold royalty company Euro Ressources (E…
Market jitters set off gold-buying frenzy
The phones have been ringing off the hook at Blanchard & Co., the biggest bullion dealer in the United States as investors buy up gold coins and bars like never before amidst the market meltdown.
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE – SEPTEMBER 23-29
Trouble south of the border brought the TSX Composite Index down to worrisome depths over the Sept. 23-29 trading period. The index lost a total of 1,353 points, but most of the decline came on a reco…
BC revives northern power line project
Vancouver — British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has resuscitated the Northwest Transmission Line (NTL), a project that would see at least 335 km of new, 287-kilovolt, power lines extended into t…
Royalty companies trumpet their low-cost model
Managing a royalty company these days is like running a MASH unit, Douglas Silver, chairman and chief executive of International Royalty Corp. (IRC-T, ROY-x) told analysts and investors at the recent …
DAILY METAL PRICES (October 06, 2008)
Date Sept. 29 Sept. 26 Sept. 25 Sept. 24 Sept. 23 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 2155/2200 2190/2201 2135/2210 2180/2250 2…
PEOPLE (October 06, 2008)
Alcoa — Kurt Waldo appointed a director; Jake Siewert appointed VP of business development and public strategy; William O’Rourke appointed VP of sustainability and environment, health and safety. Baf…
Buy-side attendance drops at Denver Gold Forum
Attendance was up 10% at this year’s Denver Gold Forum due to a 19.4% surge in sponsor representation, but a 6.5% drop in buy-side participants was a clear sign that the volatile markets and fragile e…