Articles by Northern Miner Staff

U.S. equity markets weak, Jan. 18-21

U.S. markets were closed on Monday Jan. 17 for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. When they re-opened, trading was mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 84.46 points or 0.72% to close the abbreviated Jan. 18-21 trading week at…


Spanish Mountain releases PEA

Marc Johnson, a mining analyst and chartered financial accountant at M Partners in Toronto, initiated coverage of Spanish Mountain Gold (spa-v) in the middle of December 2010, less than a month after the junior released a preliminary economic…


Tarsis gets new porphyry prospect in Yukon

If you ask Marc Blythe, president and chief executive of Tarsis Resources (tcc-v), there aren’t many companies like his that are looking for new projects in the Yukon. “There are probably only one or two publicly listed companies looking for…


Taseko shrugs (January 24, 2011)

Taseko Mines (tko-t, tgb-x) may have been knocked down by the Canadian government’s ruling against its proposed Prosperity gold-copper mine in B.C., but that doesn’t mean the company has been knocked out.The government turned down the project…


Former bidding rivals team up to chase Baffinland

In a new twist to the takeover battle for Baffinland Iron Mines (bim-t), former rivals Nunavut Iron Ore and ArcelorMittal (mt-n) are teaming up in a joint bid.”It’s been an interesting week,” Nunavut Iron chairman Bruce Walters remarks with…


Geo Minerals, Inmet drill Arizona porphyry copper targets

Joint-venture partners Geo Minerals (gm-t) and Inmet Mining (imn-t) have resumed drilling on a copper porphyry target at the Middle Mountain property in south-central Arizona.At least two reverse circulation (RC) holes are planned to test for…


Stornoway hustles for Renard

In December Stornoway Diamond (swy-t) struck a deal with  provincially owned Soquem to buy the remaining half of the Renard diamond project in Quebec.Under the proposed agreement, Diaquem, a wholly owned subsidiary of Soquem, will receive…


Rainy River secures $75M financing

On the back of its flagship 5-million-oz. Rainy River gold project in northwestern Ontario, Rainy River Resources (rr-v) has closed a $75-million bought-deal financing just as gold is starting to lose a little of its lustre.The private…


Eastern Platinum rakes in $348M

With platinum prices expected to climb further in 2011, Canada’s biggest platinum producer had little trouble raising $348 million to help pay for the first phase of its Eastern Limb development plan in South Africa.  In an equity…


Avion grows in West Africa

Avion Gold (avr-t, avgcf-o) continues to bulk up on West African gold assets as it has closed a deal to acquire the Kofi property in Mali from Axmin (axm-v). In total Avion will pay Axmin $500,000 in cash and issue 4.5 million of its shares for…


Slam cashes up to fund NB exploration

Slam Exploration (sxl-v) has topped up its treasury with private placement financings as it prepares to resume exploration drilling early in the New Year on the Reserve Creek gold project in northern Ontario and the Silverjack base-metal…


Rio Alto secures $50M financing

Rio Alto Mining (rio-v) is raising $50 million in a private placement to fund its La Arena copper-gold project 480 km northwest of Lima in Peru.A syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities and including Scotia Capital, Clarus Securities…


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