Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto stocks added another 7.59 points over the Nov. 17-23 report period to end at a 4-year high of 8,995.19. The gold index yo-yoed its way 3.68 points lower to 225.5 even as the yellow metal tacked on US$4.70 to finish at US$448.15 per oz. in…

U.S. stock markets finished little-changed over the report period Nov. 17-23 despite a selloff on Nov. 19 following comments by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on how the U.S. current account deficit might depress the value of the greenbac…

Vancouver — An independent resource estimate at Patricia Mining‘s (PAT-V) Island Gold deposit, near Wawa, Ont., indicates more tonnage than previously believed.

Drilling and a revision of the economic cutoff grade have combined to increase the reserve and resource figures at the Las Cristinas gold project in Bolivar state, Venezuela.

Vancouver — Halfway through a second phase of drilling at the Afton project in south-central British Columbia, Abacus Mining & Exploration (AME-V) continues to cut significant widths of copper-gold mineralization.

Wheaton River Minerals‘ (WRM-T) 75%-owned silver spinoff, Chap Mercantile (SLW-T), has inked a deal to buy all the silver produced from the Zinkgruvan mine in central Sweden.

Following a property deal with Barrick Gold (ABX-T), Northern Star Mining (NSM-V) has consolidated a large land package around the formerly producing Malartic Goldfields mine in northwestern Quebec.