Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drilling by Aquiline Resources (AQI-V) has intersected 5 metres grading 15.2 grams gold per tonne at depth on the Calcatreu gold-silver project in Argentina’s Rio Negro province.

Vancouver — Trenching and soil sampling have outlined two systems of gold mineralization on the Mt. Allemata gold-silver-platinum property in Papua New Guinea.

Vancouver — Atna Resources (ATN-T) has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the former Pinson gold mine in Nevada from Barrick Gold (ABX-T).

CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)…

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,525/t.

The Toronto Stock Exchange fell slightly during the report period June 23-28, with the TSX Composite index giving up 48.79 points to finish at 8,468.87.

A grassroots volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) discovery in northern Quebec has caught the eye of Noranda (NRD-T).

The US$654-million Collahuasi Rosario mine in Chile, co-owned by Falconbridge (FL-T) and Anglo American (AAUK-Q), is producing copper ahead of schedule and under budget.

Nobody actually said it would be easy. But they sure implied that consolidating the mining industry was a bit of a downhill run.

Drilling has proved that the gold deposits at Etruscan Resources‘ (EET-T) Youga property in Burkina Faso are bigger and richer than previously thought.

Vancouver — StrataGold (SGV-V) has optioned the 14.2-sq.-km Tassawini gold property in northwestern Guyana.

Anatolia Minerals (ANOU-T) has defined considerable gold following reverse-circulation drilling at its pler project in east-central Turkey.