Articles by Northern Miner Staff

VANCOUVER — Australian producer Talison Minerals and Vancouver- based Salares Lithium (LIT-V) are joining forces to create the world’s largest publicly traded lithium production and exploration compa…

When it comes to adversity, some people just rise above it all.

Canadian merger and acquisition (M&A) activity fell 30% in the first half of 2010, according to a new report issued by mergermarket.

North Vancouver-based Cabo Drilling (CBE-V) has snagged a contract with Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) to drill 5,000 metres at the company’s Hollinger gold mine in Timmins, Ont.

One of Mexico’s biggest natural resource company’s, Grupo Mexico, wants to unite two of its affiliates to create a behemoth in the copper world.

Australia (A$) July 27 July 20 Change Aquila Resources 7.58 7.27 0.31 Bendigo Mining 0.19 0.20 -0.01 Centennial Coal 6.00 5.93 0.07 Fortescue Res 4.27 4.13 0.14 Iluka…

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date July 26 July 23 July 22 July 21 July 20 US$ in C$ 1.0312 1.0373 1.0376 1.0427 1.0526 C$ in US$ 0.9697 0.9640 0.9638 0.9590 0…

Cliffs Natural Resources’ (CLF-N) US$757-million acquisition of INR Energy, a private equity firm with producing metallurgical and thermal coal mines in West Virginia, is part of the company’s long-te…

Results from four new step-out holes drilled on the Latte zone at Kaminak Gold’s (KAM-V) Coffee property in the Yukon returned encouraging intercepts including 2.35 grams gold per tonne over 51 metres…

Marathon PGM (MAR-T) shares were up more than 10% on July 21 after the company posted results from its latest round of drilling at the Leprechaun gold deposit in central Newfoundland.

VANCOUVER — Scorpio Gold (SGN-V) has released the first compliant resource estimate for its Mineral Ridge gold project almost a year after completing its initial due diligence on the property.