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Anxiety that interest rates may soon start to rise, outpacing the current and uneven recovery, continued to make investors skittish over the Dec. 8-14 reporting period. Nevertheless, the Dow Jones Ind…

A bidding war between Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) and Noront Resources (NOT-V) for Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-V) has come to an end.

Low-cost gold producer Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) says it will boost production in Bolivia in fiscal 2011, start producing in northern Spain in the first half of fiscal 2011 and release a resource estima…

VANCOUVER–Looking to boost its resource count while consolidating a large Nevada land package, Entree Gold (ETG-T, EGI-X) is buying Australian explorer PacMag Metals (PMGZF-O, PMH-A) in a cash-and-st…

Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) is in the money.

Golden Band Resources (GBN-V) wants to be seen as the key junior gold play for Saskatchewan.

With a long-awaited investment agreement finally signed by the Mongolian government, Ivanhoe Mines( IVN-T, IVN-N)and Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) are getting down to the nitty-gritty of building a mine.

The Northern Miner’s editorial comments on climate change leave me mystified. A recent example is the editorial in the Dec. 7- 13/09 issue, but the substance and tone have remained largely the same fo…

It’s always been a small, grassroots venture that never particularly gripped the market’s attention on its technical merits, but Platinex’s Big Trout Lake platinum group metals project in far northwes…

A plane crash near Iamgold’s (IMG-T, IAG-N)Niobec mine in Quebec’s Saguenay region has left two flight crew members dead and two passengers in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Earth has been emitting and absorbing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for more than half a billion years. The primary sources of current emissions are the roughly 500 active volcanic fields on the planet’s…