Global capital flows
A striking feature of international capital flows during the past year was the dominant position of the United States as a recipient of flows, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Niocan raises funds
Junior Niocan (NIO-T) is raising a minimum of $1.3 million via a private placement, with proceeds earmarked for work at the Oka niobium project, west of Montreal, Que.Privately held investment company…
Obituary – Ian Bayer
Ian Bayer, former president and chief executive officer of Battle Mountain Gold and Hemlo Gold Mines, has died. He was 62.Bayer was born in Sydney, N.S., in 1939 and graduated from Acadia University. …
Dundee boosts stake in Major Drilling
Investment firm Dundee Precious Metals (DPM-T) has acquired 300,000 shares of Moncton, N.B.-based Major Drilling Group International (MDI-T) at $3.76 per share. As a result, Dundee nows holds an 11.8%…
News – 13-AUG-01
Affinity group fraud
Among the more notorious scams that occurred in Arizona was a 1980s scheme centred on operations at a suspect gold mine near Rich Hill, northwest of Wickenburg. Phoenix-based Tracon International sold…
Tri Origin starts program Rex changes accounting policy
Tri Origin Exploration (TOE-V) is testing the Kazan copper-gold project 70 km south of Baker Lake in Nunavut, for its potential to host copper-gold deposits similar to Australia’s famous Olympic Dam m…
Juniors busy in Ontario
Vancouver-based Tres-Or Resources (TRS-V) has added 837 claims to its existing 900-claim package east of Martin River, in the Sudbury region of Ontario.The properties are believed to be prospective fo…
Christopher James drills copper showing
Kamloops, B.C.-based Christopher James Gold (CJG-V) is set to drill a new high-grade copper showing on its Silver Lake property, 17 km northwest of Little Fort in the same province.A 1-metre-wide zone…
Global warming separate from Kyoto pact
I have found the editorials in The Northern Miner on global warming over the past year or so to be objectionable. I sense a failure to separate the issue of global warming and its causes, on the one h…
Precious metals get trading site
A consortium of mining companies, refiners and industrial users of gold, silver and platinum group metals will form an Internet-based precious metals marketplace.The site, to be known as Electronic Pr…
Yukon signs road pact with junior
The Yukon government has reached a road maintenance agreement with North American Tungsten (NAT) which supports the reopening of the CanTung mine.The Department of Community and Transportation Service…