Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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Leading up to the G-20 weekend meeting of finance ministers, U.S. stocks ended higher for the third straight week at the close of the Oct. 18-22 period. The Dow Jones industrial average added 69.78 po…

A dipping gold price helped lead to a mixed week for the S&P-TSX Venture composite index, but three days of gains outpaced two days of losses to have the board end up 55.71 points at 1,878.23.

With the Bank of Canada holding rates at 1%, the TSX composite managed to hold on to much of its recent gains for the Oct. 18-22 period. The index fell a mere 11 points for the week, to 12,641.93.

Astur Gold — Juan Calvo-Sotelo appointed director of communications; Francisco Javier Lopez-Cancio appointed director of community relations.

Lord Strathcona Elementary School is the oldest elementary school in the city of Vancouver, having been built in 1891 to educate the children of mostly immigrant and working-class families.

A new face drilling rig for narrow tunnels and mines has been introduced by Sweden-headquartered Atlas Copco. Based on the Boomer 104, the new Boomer T1 D retains many of its predecessor’s features an…

Caterpillar (CAT-N) and Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) have signed a five-year agreement wherein Caterpillar will support and supply a broad range of Cat equipment for Rio Tinto’s mines worldwide. It is the…

Having settled into its new headquarters in downtown Toronto, Dumas Contracting has acquired L&L Contratista Minera, a Peruvian mining contractor specializing in shaft sinking.

In June 2010, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic released a report entitled Bearing the burden: The effects of mining on First Nations in British Columbia, which is available at ht…

BHP Billiton’s $40-billion hostile bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan entered a critical period in late October, as the broadly free market-friendly Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and his government…