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Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (January 09, 2006)


A truck hauls ore from the Pollyanna pit at Taseko Mines' Gibraltar copper-gold operation in south-central B.C. Taseko says reserves at Gibraltar are up 30% to 176 million tonnes grading 0.31% copper and 0.01% molybdenum.

Taseko posts $24.4 million in earnings

Vancouver — Strong copper and molybdenum prices propelled Taseko Mines (TKO-V, TGB-X) to after-tax earnings of $24.4 million (or 23 per share) in fiscal 2005….


Royal Gold buying Kennecott royalties

Vancouver — Royal Gold (RGL-T, RGLD-Q) is expanding its portfolio by spending US$25 million for a pair of royalties owned by Kennecott, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto



Geoscientists in short supply

The red flags have been up for years: there are simply not enough students entering the earth sciences to sustain the mining and petroleum sector….


Wind farms mostly benign

Wind energy is the fastest-growing electricity source on the planet today, and for good reason: it is becoming increasingly competitive with traditional electricity sources and has a very low environm…


Roy Lloyd

Roy Lloyd, a Saskatchewan government employee who helped establish Cameco — now the largest uranium producer in the world — has died of cancer. He was 64….


Hecla drills extension

Hecla Mining (HL-N) says it expects to make a decision in the last half of the year on whether to go underground on the Hugh Zone, a deep extension of the main vein now mined out at…


Kimber sees Carmen look-alike at Carotare

Vancouver — The coming year promises to be a busy one for Kimber Resources (KBR-T, KBX-X), which plans to advance its Carmen gold-silver deposit to feasibility while exploring two…


It’s never easy to say goodbye

The Northern Miner is part of a close-knit group of people who also produce the Canadian Mining Journal and the Canadian and American Mines Handbook….


Partners test Moore Lake (January 09, 2006)

The last batch of holes from a summer drilling campaign on the Moore Lake uranium project in Saskatchewan contains more encouraging results for partners International Uranium (IUC-T…


McEwen adds Minera Andes to roster

Vancouver — Minera Andes (MAI-V, MNEAF-O) is the latest junior explorer to fall into the sights of Robert McEwen, who is investing $10 million in the company….


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