Ryan Gold looks to a strong year after challenging 2011
When The Northern Miner visited Ryan Gold’s (RYG-V) flagship Ida Oro project last August, the company was scrambling to finish its camp and make up for lost time.
Volume 97 Number 49 Jan 23 - 29, 2012
Prophecy Platinum starts winter drill program at Wellgreen
Fifteen kilometres off the paved Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon, the Wellgreen nickel-copper-platinum group metal (PGM) project sits largely as it has since 1973, when Hudson-Yukon Mining abandoned underground mining there after one year…
Brixton cuts mega-intercept at Thorn in BC
Brixton Metals (BBB-V) has pulled a whopper of an intercept from the Thorn project in northwest B.C., hitting 95 metres grading 904 grams per tonne silver equivalent from near surface.
Three companies better than one for Western Copper family
Convinced its portfolio of projects weren’t being adequately appreciated in the market, Yukon-focused Western Copper last year spun out everything but its flagship Casino project into two new companies.
Canada Zinc drills Cardiac Creek
Exploration and diamond drilling at Canada Zinc Metals’ (CZX-V) Cardiac Creek Sedex zinc-lead-silver deposit on its Akie property, 260 km northwest of the town of Mackenzie in northeastern B.C., started in May – and so far the company has…
Huckleberry approves mine expansion
The board of Huckleberry Mines – in which Imperial Metals (III-T) holds a 50% stake, and a consortium of Asian companies (Materials, Marubeni, Dowa Mining and Furukawa) owns the remainder – has approved a plan to extend the life of its…
Randy Turner’s Independence Gold advancing 19 properties in B.C., Yukon
With $15 million in the till, newly listed Independence Gold (IGO-V) is looking to recreate past success in B.C. and the Yukon while searching for gold and silver. The company was spun out of Randy Turner’s former Silver Quest Resources on Dec….
Quest moves higher on drill results
Shares of Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-V, QRM-X) closed 25% higher at $3.23 per share on Jan. 12 after the junior announced that heavy rare earth oxides represented 22.4% to 76.5% of rare earth oxides intersected during the company’s Strange Lake…
Smash Minerals, Prosperity Goldfields to merge
When Adrian Fleming, co-founder of the wildly successful Underworld Resources, listened to a presentation at his Vancouver office in November last year from Prosperity Goldfields’ (PPG-V) chief geologist Quinton Hennigh about a prospect in…
Trevali opens Halfmile mine in NB
Trevali Mining (TV-T) has kicked off the new year by transitioning from a development-stage company to a producer, by starting up the Halfmile polymetallic massive sulphide mine near Bathurst, N.B.
Auracle shares pop 51% before drill results
Shares of new Vancouver-based gold explorer Auracle Resources (AAL-V) spiked 51% last week to 46¢ apiece before the company releasing assay results from a first round of drilling at its Mexican Hat gold property in Arizona.
Editorial: Eurodebt shockwaves to hit Canadians
Mid-January served up a good example of how downward lurches in the world’s sovereign debt crises don’t automatically translate into upswings in gold and silver prices.