Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Signals suggest commodity rally drawing to a close

The single biggest technical feature dominating the commodity markets is divergence on medium and long-term charts. This is afflicting both individual markets and the indices, and, in our view, implies that the rally of the past three years is mat…


Juniors steady as gold holds above US$440 per oz.

Junior mining stocks held their own over the shortened trading period Dec. 22-24, before the holiday season kicked in. The TSX Venture Exchange index saw an increase of 44.76 points, or 2.5%, to 1781.44 from the beginning of the trading period.


Voisey’s Bay sparks interest in Placentia, Nfld.

Settling Placentia when Toronto was trees, Basque fishermen described it as insulace corte realis, or “harbour within a womb of hills.” The depiction was apt. More than 100 years later, in the early 1600s, France and England fought for control of…


Mano River joins with Crown Diamonds

Vancouver — The Lion Kimberlite Dykes project in eastern Sierra Leone is expected to start producing in 2005, following a joint-venture agreement between Australian-listed diamond miner Crown Diamonds and U.K.-based Ma…


Gold ore processing

The following is an excerpt from Mining Explained, published by The Northern Miner.


Partners size up Valentine Lake (January 03, 2005)

Following nearly 7,000 metres worth of drilling in 24 holes, partners Richmont Mines (RIC-T) and Mountain Lake Resources (MOA-V) have tabled an inferred resource figure for their Valentine Lake property, 55 km…



Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (January 03, 2005)






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