New web site will sell gold products
An international consortium wants to make the Internet a one-stop gold shop. South Africa’s AngloGold, U.S. financier J.P. Morgan and Swiss refiner Produits Artistiques de Metaux Precieux have joined …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
A friend in Babbit?
The article “Canyon Resources files ‘takings’ suit against Montana” (T.N.M., April 17-23/00) states that Canyon Resources estimates the value of the McDonald deposit could reach US$500 million.This si…
Emma’s ghost
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) is long-departed from this world, but the spirit of America’s most famous self-proclaimed anarchist seemed to haunt last year’s battle in Seattle against the World Trade Organ…
Lac des les resource expected to grow
Ongoing drilling at the Lac des les palladium-platinum deposit, 85 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont., continues to expand the Roby zone.Since mid-January, North American Palladium (PDL-T) has sank 40 hol…
No Headline (May 01, 2000)
AGX Resources (axs-v) has changed its name to Consolidated AGX Resources (csx-v) on a 1-new-for-4-old-share basis.
Pacific Rim bullish over Luicho tests
Junior Pacific Rim Mining (PFG-T) has tabled encouraging results from bottle-roll tests of samples collected from its Luicho gold project in southern Peru, while noting that sampling has confirmed the…
New zone keeps Cominco in pink at Red Dog
A zinc district potentially richer than any other in the world is emerging in northwestern Alaska, as evident by last year’s discovery of significant new zinc-lead mineralization 10 km north of Cominc…
Placer Dome aims to improve performance
The interests of stakeholders and shareholders were a study in contrasts at the recent annual meeting of Placer Dome (PDG-T), held in Toronto. While shareholders wanted action to improve the weak shar…
Alamo Dorado yields highest grades yet
Stepout drilling at the Alamo Dorado project in Mexico’s Sonora state has intersected the highest silver grades yet for Corner Bay Minerals (BAY-T).Hole 49, collared on line 3+50 South, returned 52.5 …
TSE to boot struggling juniors in August
Junior mining companies facing the boot from the Toronto Stock Exchange under strict new listing requirements have four months to turn their fortunes around.Starting Aug. 1, the TSE will delist any re…
Dow pulls back from big loss
The Dow Jones industrial average suffered a staggering drop during the report period ended April 18, though late-week trading cut the losses to 4.6%. The Dow ended the week down 519.66 points at 10,76…
Atna to review Finlayson
Atna Resources (ATN-T) has commissioned Kilborn Engineering Pacific to perform an independent, third-party review of the Finlayson project in southeastern Yukon.The review follows a recent agreement b…