Tethyan tussle heats up (March 20, 2006)
The board of Aussie takeover target Tethyan Copper (TYCFF-O, TYC-A) is stepping back from earlier advice and urging shareholders to take no action in the face of competing takeover of…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Bolivian minister seeks to allay fears
Still riding a rush of populist enthusiasm, Bolivia’s recently elected Movement Towards Socialism Party is taking a turn at revising the country’s mining code….
Apex’s Buchanan heads list of PDAC award winners
Awards ceremonies are a time to shower praise on the worthy, those deemed to be worthy, and those who helped them along the way. This year’s edition of the annual Prospectors and Developers Associatio…
Maximum sues for Western Prospector’s Mongolian projects (March 20, 2006)
Vancouver — Western Prospector Group (WNP-V) has been hit with a lawsuit by Maximum Ventures (MVI.H-V, MXRVF-O), challenging rights and title to some of its Mongolia…
Vannessa revises Crucitas resource (March 20, 2006)
Consultants for Vannessa Ventures (VVV-V, VNVNF-O) have delivered a revised estimate of the precious metal resource at the Las Crucitas property in Alajuela province, Costa Rica….
Erdene Gold cozies with Xstrata
Vancouver — Erdene Gold (ERD-T, ERDGF-O) is getting closer to Swiss-based mining giant Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L), with a position on Erdene’s board going to the major…
Xstrata posts Las Bambas resource (March 20, 2006)
Drilling through to year-end at the Las Bambas copper-molybdenum deposit in Peru has allowed Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) to calculate a resource….
U.S. Markets March 7-13
With the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index finishing the trading period March 7-13 up 0.6% at 1,284.13, stock markets in the United States struggled slowly upward, hardly having time to wave goodbye as…
People (March 20, 2006)
Adamus Res. — John Hopkins appointed chairman; John Daniels retired as chairman….
Apex probes payments
An internal investigation by Apex Silver (SIL-X) has revealed that one of the company’s Latin American subsidiaries may have made improper payments to government officials in an undis…
Minefinders to build heap-leach mine at Dolores
Vancouver — Management of Minefinders (MFL-T, MFN-X) plans to spend about US$131.6 million to build an 18,000-tonne-per-day, open-pit heap-leach mine at the Dolores gold-silver prope…
TSX Venture Exchange March 7-13
A slip in bullion and base metal prices prompted a drop in the lofty S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, off 54.58 points or 2% to close at 2,588.93 over the March 7-13 session. Average daily trading…