Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Vancouver — Candente Resource (DNT-V) has intersected what appears to be a major porphyry copper zone on its Caariaco project in northern Peru.

BHP Billiton (BHP-N) has approved construction of the US$990-million Spence copper project, near Sierra Gorda in northern Chile.

Vancouver — Bulk sampling on Liberty Mineral Exploration‘s (LBE-V) McAra Lake cobalt project, midway between Sudbury and Timmins in northeastern Ontario, has returned significant cobalt values.

Quadrem gets bigger…

At the Tepsa project in northern Finland, Scandinavian Gold (SGL-T) has intersected widespread anomalous base metal and gold mineralization but failed to find a higher-grade source of the strong copper-gold geochemical anomaly o…

The S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, along with its junior miner-explorer component, had a relatively even week, closing out the Oct. 20-26 trading period at 1,652.62, up just over two points from the previous week’s close. The session saw average…

Despite a tough weekend, U.S. equity markets were little-changed over the report period Oct. 20-26. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 9.14 points at 9,888.48 and the S&P 500 rose 7.86 points to 1,111.09.

Vancouver — Ongoing drilling by Canadian Arrow Mines (CRO-V) on its Alexo project, 45 km northeast of Timmins, Ont., has yielded further intercepts of high-grade nickel.

Vancouver — Klondex Mines (KDX-V) has intersected several high-grade gold zones, as well as lower grades, over impressive widths at its Fire Creek property in Nevada’s Battle Mountain-Eureka trend.