Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Spot Prices Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005 Courtesy of Scotiabank

Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change
Gold $467.50 +1.85
Silver $7.43 +0.13
Platinum<...


Trade Winds Ventures' Vice-President of exploration and Head Geologist Lorne Warner logs core at the Detour Lake gold project in northern Ontario.

Trade Winds taps bonanza grades at Detour Lake

Vancouver — Drilling by Trade Winds Ventures (TWD-V, TWDIF-O) has hit further high-grade gold mineralization at its Detour Lake Block A project, located about 160 km northwest of T…


Queenstake Resources scales down operations

Vancouver — Following a long string of quarterly losses, Queenstake Resources (QRL-T, QEE-X) has delivered a new development plan for its Jerritt Canyon gold mine complex in northe…


Band-Ore signs up Placer on 144 property

Vancouver — Placer Dome (PDG-T, PDG-N) has formalized its option agreement on Band-Ore Resources‘ (BAN-T, BNDOF-O) 144 property located near Timmins, Ont….




Quiet week for metals in regrouping market

Sept. 27 to Oct. 3 were five days of treading water for the mining stocks on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with both sectors showing slight declines while the broader market, as measured by the composit…




The No. 3 shaft at the past-producing Macassa mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont. Kirkland Lake Gold bought the Macassa mine and a 1,500-ton per day mill along with four past-producing gold properties in December 2001. The properties have historically produced some 22 million ounces of gold.

Kirkland Lake: the next Red Lake?

Reinterpreting mineralized structures has paid off for Red Lake and other old gold mining camps in Ontario. Could Kirkland Lake be next?…


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