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TSX Venture Shorts (March 28, 2005)
Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15, 2005 (change from Feb. 28)….
Thistle boosts reserves at Steyn
Revised resource and reserve estimates at the President Steyn gold mine in South Africa’s Free State show a significant increase in reserves on the Steyn 1, Steyn 2 and Steyn 3 shafts. At the same tim…
The unending NPI dispute
Fourteen years ago, in a Northern Miner article titled “Vendors, operators battle over NPI royalties” (T.N.M., July 29/91), Virginia Heffernan wrote on the dispute between the net-profit-interest (NPI…
TSX Shorts (March 28, 2005)
Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15, 2005 (change from Feb. 28)….
IGC Resources ties into Blackburn high-grade (March 28, 2005)
Vancouver — Drilling by
Shore Gold raises $100m
Vancouver — Diamond explorer
Protesters disrupt PDAC gala
On the evening of March 9, a grass hut was erected outside the Canadian Room at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, as part of the Southeast Asian theme of the concluding ceremony of the convent…
Manitoba in the forties
In 1940, from an apartment in Sherridon, Manitoba, my wife Mary saw her first dog team and her first ptarmigan. That year, as the town celebrated New Year’s, the decorations were centred around one of…
Electra Gold CEO focuses on world peace
I am announcing my decision to refuse to pay income tax in the United States and Canada. I have divested myself of all personal assets, redirected these assets toward organizations which are working t…
TNM blows out the candles
Ninety years old and we still have our teeth. As The Northern Miner enters its 91st year as a weekly, Canadian-based mining newspaper, we’re taking time to look back at the momentous news we’ve covere…