GobiMin upgrades Yellow Mountain
Vancouver As it continues to sink shafts at its Yellow Mountain property about 100 km southeast of Hami city in n…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Spurred on in China (August 19, 2008)
Second quarter results showed Spur Ventures (SVU-T, SPVEF-O) to be well on its way to becoming a key fertilizer sup…
Victory Nickel bids for Independent Nickel
Victory Nickel (NI-T) hopes to expand its nickel holdings in Manitoba and has made an unsolicited, all-share takeov…
Red Hill to sample Ulaan Ovoo coal
Red Hill Energy (RH-V) is combining a bulk sample program with an open pit expansion program at its Ulaan Ovoo coal…
Sultan Minerals drills moly, identifies new tungsten zone at Jersey-Emerald
Vancouver For Sultan Minerals (SUL-V), five million tonnes is the magic number. Sultan president and CEO Arthur T…
SilverCrest Mines takes two steps forward at Santa Elena
SilverCrest Mines (SVL-V, STVZF-O) has checked off two more boxes on its “to-do” list before it can move its Sant…
Chinese zirconium play lists on the TSX
Rock samples taken from several Apollo space missions suggest that zirconium is found in higher concentrations on t…
More gold for Aquila
Aquila Resources (AQA-T) got a slight lift from drills testing a porphyry deposit at its Back Forty project in Mich…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE AUG. 5-11
Mining stocks dragged the TSX Composite Index down 2.2% or 293.34 points to 12,203.19 over the Aug. 5-11 trading period. As commodity prices continued to weaken, the losses in the resource-dominant be…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE AUG. 5-11
The S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index continued its slide over the Aug. 5-11 trading session. Red closes far overshadowed a single six-point gain, leaving the board to close down 222.76 points at 2,…
B. C., Yukon helicopter crashes kill five
VANCOUVER–Two mining-related helicopter crashes have killed five people in less than a week in Western Canada.
PEOPLE (August 18, 2008)
African Aura Resources — Ajay Gupta appointed CFO; Maz Mannan has resigned as CFO.