Articles by Northern Miner Staff

U.S. Markets April 25-May 1

Robust prices for most metals and commodities gave a boost to gold and copper companies on U.S. markets over the report period April 25-May 1, but coal companies didn’t fare as well, with price contra…





Spot Prices: Courtesy of Scotiabank,Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change
Gold $657.75 +30.00
Silver $13.92 +1.45
Platinu…


Mosquito finds mutiple metals at Pine Tree

Vancouver — Drilling by Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines (MSQ-V, MQCMF-O) on its Pine Tree project, in central Nevada, has turned up wide, multi-element mineralized intercepts….


‘Business as usual’ at Ekati

Three weeks into its first-ever strike, BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) 7-year-old Ekati diamond mine, about 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T., appears to be holding up just fine….


The Elkview coal mine loadout facility in the Elk Valley area of southeastern British Columbia, 15 km from Sparwood. Teck Cominco owns a 39% interest in Elkview through the Elk Valley Coal Partnership, which settled most of its 2006 coal contracts at an average price of US$107 per tonne, versus US$122 in 2005.TECK COMINCO

Teck posts record profits

Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TEK.SV.B-T, TCKBF-O) posted net earnings of $448 million, or $2.19 per share, for the first quarter of 2006, more than double the net income of $205 million, or $1.01 per sh…


A strike at the Yanacocha gold mine (pictured), which accounts for about half Peru's gold output, could come any day now. The mine is operated by Newmont Mining in a partnership with Compania de Minas Buenaventura of Peru.STEPHEN STAKIW

Strike looms over Yanacocha (May 08, 2006)

Roughly two weeks after a group of workers at Latin America’s biggest mine returned to work, miners at Peru’s Yanacocha gold mine are threatening to walk off the site again….


CNQ Trading (May 08, 2006)

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