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Below are the most recent Mining News North newspaper articles.
Mining News: Is the Nova brightening or fading? 09/28/2008 NovaGold Resources Inc. experienced more than a 30 percent drop in stock value when the Vancouver B.C.-based junior reported it is selling more than 485,000 acres of its non-core mining assets in Alaska, and that sale of the entire company is one of the options managers are considering as a strateg...
Mining News: Junior producers plan Mexi-Can merger 09/28/2008 Sherwood Copper Corp. and Capstone Mining Corp. Sept. 8 said they signed a letter of agreement to combine their operations to create a copper mining company with two producing mines in mining-friendly jurisdictions in North America.
The two companies agreed to combine on an atmarket basis with S...
Mining News: Mantra Mining emerges as spin-out vehicle 09/28/2008 Mantra Mining Inc. became a major mineral property landholder in Alaska literally overnight when it agreed to purchase more than 485,000 acres of mining claims from NovaGold Resources Inc. and Rio Tinto PLC.
In a C$20 million deal Mantra bought NovaGolds interest in six western Alaska projects incl...
Mining News: Mining has much at stake in November 09/28/2008 Laura Skaer, executive director of the Northwest Mining Association, recently told miners in Nevada that the November general election will have major significance for U.S. miners with the election of a new U.S. president and a new Congress.
In a presentation to the Nevada Mining Association convent...
Mining News: Impact of pipeline proposal worries regulators 09/28/2008 Nome Alaska regulators are expressing concerns about a proposal to build a 55-mile pipeline to discharge wastewater from the Red Dog zinc-lead mine in Northwest Alaska.
The proposed pipeline, one of the items included in a lawsuit settlement between Teck Cominco Alaska Inc. and six residents of the...
Mining News: Opportunities will mushroom for the bold 09/28/2008 With termination dust settling ever lower throughout Alaska, the bulk of the 2008 exploration season has been completed, but lots of results are still pending from projects around the state. As the exploration industry winds down, the Rock Creek gold mine started production bringing owner and operat...
Mining News: Dark clouds harbor some golden linings 09/28/2008 Is there anyone anywhere who was caught by surprise by the domestic financial crunch that has recently occurred? Those of us who arent players in world economics have watched the symptoms develop for several years. When commodities move up in lockstep, it doesnt mean their value is increasing, it...
Mining News: Junior, partner sample uranium property 09/28/2008 Uravan Minerals Inc. and Cameco Corp. Aug. 27 said they recently completed a multi-faceted surface sampling program on the Boomerang North Uranium Project, in Southwest Thelon Basin, 300 miles east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Project operator Uravan granted Cameco an option to earn 60 pe...
Mining News: Exploration advances in Selwyn Basin 09/28/2008 HOWARDS PASS, Yukon Territory In this wide, alpine valley that snakes across the border into the Northwest Territories at its southeastern tip, one of the worlds largest zinc-lead-silver properties may slumber.
First drilled by a joint venture between Placer Dome and Cygnus Mines Ltd. in the 19...
Mining News: YOW agrees to buy historic Caribou Dome 09/28/2008 Ontario-based YOW Capital Corp. is taking a fresh look at the Caribou Dome high-grade copper property in Southcentral Alaska, about 160 miles, or 257 kilometers, northeast of Anchorage.
Caribou Dome was known as the Denali copper prospect when it was staked in 1963 for Leo Mark Anthony, owner of C-...
Mining News: Selwyn Project poised to meet surge in zinc demand to arise from supply shortfall 09/28/2008 Selwyn Resources Ltd., the Vancouver, B.C.-based junior that owns the giant zinc-lead property also called Selwyn in the eastern Yukon and southwestern Northwest Territories, says the project is perfectly poised to meet future market demand.
Though zinc prices are currently depressed, prospects for...
Mining News: Involvement is keystone of Pebble plan 09/28/2008 We feel strongly that an informed public is an empowered public, the Keystone Center said in an early September report that attempts to identify the principle issues people have raised in regard to the proposed Pebble mine and to evaluate the desirability and feasibility of a process to discuss and...
Mining News: Coeur gives up on alternative permitting plan 09/28/2008 Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. has terminated a permitting process for building a paste tailings facility for the Kensington gold mine project, which is located 45 miles north-northwest of Juneau.
The decision, which leaves the company relying on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Southeast Alaska mine...
Mining News: BHP releases interests in Iliamna to TNR 09/28/2008 BHP Billiton has completed an ownership transfer of the Iliamna property in Southwest Alaska to TNR Gold Corp. and Geocom Resources Inc. in early September. Two weeks later, TNR incorporated a new subsidiary in Alaska, Bristol Explorations Co., Inc., which has taken over TNRs properties in Alaska,...
Mining News: Investors approve funds for Tulsequah plan 09/28/2008 Redcorp Ventures Ltd. and subsidiary Redfern Resources Ltd. said holders of more than the required two-thirds of the companys 13 percent senior secured notes have agreed to certain amendments to the note terms between the junior mining company and CIBC Mellon Trust Co.
The proposed amendments wil...
Mining News: Junior reopens historic gold mine 08/31/2008 Full Metal Minerals Ltd. has taken the first step in transitioning from explorer to miner at its Lucky Shot high-grade gold property in the historic Willow Mining District about 145 kilometers, or 90 miles, north of Anchorage.
The company is tunneling into the mountain to recover a 5,000 metric-ton...
Mining News: Alaskans say No to unclear measure 08/31/2008 The majority of Alaska voters followed the lead of their governor the August 26 primary, turning down Ballot Measure 4 at polling booth by a margin of nearly three to two.
When Gov. Sarah Palin took her governors hat off Aug. 25 and threw it in the Vote No on Measure 4 ring; she joined leaders...
Mining News: More money for mapping Canadas Arctic 08/31/2008 The Canadian government Aug. 26 said it will invest $100 million over the next five years in its new Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals program. The funding is an extension of the $34 million Canada committed to the geo-mapping program earlier this year.
As Ive said before, use it or lose it is...
Mining News: Greens Creek transforms Hecla 08/31/2008 Hecla Mining Co.s purchase of the remaining 70.3 percent interest in Greens Creek Mine from its partner Rio Tinto earlier this year resulted in both cash losses and increased silver production for the second-quarter of 2008. The Idaho-based silver producer said the purchase of the Southeast Alaska...
Mining News: Teck profits from copper, coal 08/31/2008 Teck Cominco Ltd. reported that the second-quarter was highlighted by the strong performance of the Vancouver, B.C.-based majors copper division. Elk Valley Coal was also a large contributor, benefiting from the phase in of the 2008 coal year prices of $275 per ton, up from $93 per ton 2007 coal ye...
Mining News: Red Dog discharge lawsuit unsettled 08/31/2008 Teck Cominco Aug. 1 filed a motion in a U.S. district court, asking the court to enforce a settlement between the operator of the Red Dog Mine and six residents of Kivalina, a Northwest Alaska village 66 miles, or 106 kilometers, downstream from the mine.
Teck Cominco wants U.S. District Judge John...
Mining News: Miners head into second half of 2008 08/31/2008 Several drilling programs started in the last month and several others began reporting initial results from programs commenced earlier in the summer. Two of Alaskas operating mines reported strong operating results and two new mineral resource estimates have been released. Alaskas seasonal explora...
Mining News: Loose change, or be careful what you wish for 08/31/2008 Change is on the tip of everyones tongue these days, and it is inevitable that change will occur. It is a perfectly normal law of nature; however, it is equally demonstrable that the more things change the more they remain the same. Newton captured the concept which is as true in politics as it i...
Mining News: Junior chases vein gold in western Yukon 08/31/2008 DAWSON CITY, Yukon Atop a wooded peak in this land of mountains and deep valleys near the confluence of the White and Yukon rivers, a New Zealand-based miner is hard at work exploring for gold.
Underworld Resources Inc., a junior organized in 2007, has come to the Far North in hopes of making a co...
Mining News: Ucore seeks uranium, rare earths 08/31/2008 Ucore Uranium Inc. is reporting positive assay results from core samples drilled by two rigs churning at the Bokan Mountain uranium and rare earth elements exploration project 60 kilometers, or 37 miles, southwest of Ketchikan. The company is also awaiting assay returns for mineable quantities of RE...
Mining News: Modern prospecting digs decent payday 08/31/2008 DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory Underworld Resources Inc., like a growing number of juniors, owes its chance to make a huge mineral discovery in Yukon to a couple of modern-day prospectors, Shawn Ryan and Cathy Wood.
But Ryan and his wife and partner, Wood, are a far cry from stereotypical prospector...
Mining News: More production, less debt at Minto 08/31/2008 Only nine months after reaching commercial production at its high-grade Minto copper-gold mine, Sherwood Copper Corporation made a significant dent in its bank debt. The company said strong copper prices along with increased production and decreased operating costs allowed for the payment.
Second-qu...
Mining News: Junior chases molybdenum under Gold Hill 08/31/2008 MAX Resource Corp. Aug. 18 said it has completed a 10-hole diamond drill program totaling 7,664 feet, or more than 2,358 meters, at its Gold Hill molybdenum project located about 212 miles, or 342 kilometers, north northeast of Anchorage.
The first drill hole of the 2008 program tested the zone to...
Mining News: Toronto firm wins Faro mine contract 08/31/2008 Denison Environmental Services, a division of Denison Mines Inc., has won a three-year, $21.6 million contract for care and maintenance at the Faro Mine Complex in the Yukon.
A subsidiary of Canadian uranium producer Denison Mines Corp., the company was chosen after a six-month competitive bidding...
Mining News: New junior partners with Sherwood to explore Yukon 08/31/2008 Northern Tiger Resources Inc. began drilling in July at its Sonora gold-silver-copper-molybdenum project, located 110 kilometers, or 68 miles, northwest of Carmacks, Yukon. The 5,244-hectare, or 12,952-acre, Sonora property is located within 40 kilometers, or 25 miles, of the Minto copper-gold mine...
Mining News: Two more diamond mines open in Canada 08/31/2008 De Beers officially opened its first two mines outside of Africa in northern Canada in late July.
The Snap Lake Mine in Northwest Territories and the Victor Mine in northern Ontario, together, are expected to produce 2 million carats a year. They are Canadas fourth and fifth diamond mines. Snap Lak...
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Below are the most recent Newsletter articles
Teck Cominco buys Fording, changes brand name 10/02/2008 Teck Cominco Limited and Fording Canadian Coal Trust Sept. 30 said the Court of Queenfs Bench of Alberta has issued a final order approving a plan for Fording to sell all of its assets to the Vancouv... Comments
Drilling expands Donlin resource potential 10/02/2008 NovaGold Resources Inc. Sept. 30 provided an update for the Donlin Creek gold project in Southwest Alaska, with additional drill results from the 2008 drill programs, which now totals more than 32,000...Comments
Highway 37 power line back on track 10/02/2008 British Columbia premier, Gordon Campbell, Sept. 26 said the province will immediately start the environmental assessment process and First Nations consultation on the Northwest Transmission Line alon... Comments
News Nuggets 10/02/2008 GOLD - International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. Sept. 30 reported the latest drill results from the ongoing 2008 resource expansion program at its Livengood gold project north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Drillin... Comments
Coeur cancels paste tailings plan 09/25/2008 Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. has terminated the permitting process for building a paste tailings facility for the Kensington gold mine project, which is located 45 miles north-northwest of Juneau.
The de... Comments
Production begins at Rock Creek gold mine 09/25/2008
NovaGold made the highly-anticipated transition from explorer to miner on Sept. 18, when production began at its Rock Creek gold mine on the outskirts of Nome.
NovaGold president and CEO, Rick Van N...Comments
High-grade gold at Freegold Mountain 09/25/2008 Northern Freegold Resources Ltd. Sept. 25 announced results from the 2008 drill program at the Goldy Zone located in the eastern portion of the district scale Freegold Mountain Project, Yukon. The 200... Comments
News Nuggets 09/25/2008 URANIUM - Ucore Uranium Inc. Sept. 25 reports significant assay results for rare earth elements and associated metals have now been received from drilling at Bokan Mountains I&L zone. Jim McKenzie, P... Comments
Keystone recommends three-stage Pebble stakeholder dialogue plan 09/18/2008 Denver-based Keystone Center released a draft report on Sept. 2 that attempts to identify the principle issues people have raised with regard to the proposed Pebble mine and to evaluate the desirabili... Comments
Note holders endorse Tulsequah funding changes 09/18/2008 Denver-based Keystone Center released a draft report on Sept. 2 that attempts to identify the principle issues people have raised with regard to the proposed Pebble mine and to evaluate the desirabili...Comments
Competition authorities approve Fording Coal acquisition 09/18/2008
Teck Cominco Ltd. Sep. 15 said it has received a competition clearance in the form of a notice of non-opposition from the European Commission competition authority with respect to Tecks proposed acq... Comments
News Nuggets 09/18/2008 Redcorp Ventures Ltd. and its subsidiary, Redfern Resources Ltd., Sept. 18 reported that the holders of more than the requisite 66.66 percent of the companys 13 percent senior secured notes have agre... Comments
09/18/2008 COAL - Usibelli Coal Mine Inc. Sept. 15 said it is sending two trial shipments of coal to new Pacific Rim customers in 2008. The fourth generation family-owned Alaska coal producers exports are expec... Comments
Rock Creek gold, Galore Creek plan 09/11/2008 NovaGold President and CEO, Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, Sept. 8 told attendees of the Denver Gold Forum that the Rock Creek gold mine in Northwest Alaska is nearing regulatory approval by Alaska regulators... Comments
Junior copper producers propose Mexi-Can merger 09/11/2008 Sherwood Copper Corp. and Capstone Mining Corp. Sept 8 said they signed a letter of agreement to combine their operations to create a copper mining company with two producing mines in mining-friendly...Comments
Niblack reports 2.8 million ton Lookout resource 09/11/2008
Niblack Mining Corp. September 10 released an initial NI 43-101 compliant independent resource estimate for the Niblack polymetallic volcanic massive sulfide property located in Southeast Alaska. The... Comments
News Nuggets 09/11/2008 GOLD - Freegold Ventures Ltd. Sept. 8 reported that its first step-out hole, 100 feet south of holes 6 and 7, has continued to intersect high-grade, gold mineralization along the Grey Lead vein at the... Comments
Mantra to purchase Ambler, other Alaska properties 09/04/2008 Vancouver, B.C.-based Mantra Mining Inc. Sept. 2 said it has entered into two separate agreements with affiliates of Rio Tinto PLC and NovaGold Resources Inc. and an affiliate of NovaGold, to purchas... Comments
BHP releases Iliamna to TNR 09/04/2008 TNR Gold Corp. and Geocom Resources Inc. Sept. 2 said that the companies and BHP Billiton have concluded the transfer of ownership of the Iliamna property from BHP Billiton to TNR. The transfer of BHP...Comments
News Nuggets 09/04/2008 GOLD - International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. September 4 reported the drill results from an additional 21 drill holes of the ongoing 2008 resource expansion program at its bulk tonnage Livengood gold pr... Comments
Alaskans say No to unclear measure 08/28/2008 The majority of Alaska voters followed the lead of their governor the August 26 primary, turning down Ballot Measure 4 at polling booth by a margin of nearly three to two.
When Gov. Sarah Palin took... Comments
Sherwood reports strong Minto performance 08/28/2008 Sherwood Copper Corp. Aug. 27 reported a net loss of C$200,000 for the second quarter, reflecting a dramatic improvement over the C$21.3 million net loss the company incurred in the same period in 200...Comments
Freegold borrows from flush miner 08/28/2008 Freegold Ventures Ltd. August 25 said it has closed its second tranche of $2 million in financing. This financing has been provided by Toronto-based Tiomin Resources Inc. and has the same terms as the... Comments
News Nuggets 08/28/2008 COPPER - Sherwood Copper Corporation August 26 said exceptionally high rainfall during the past several days, on top of an already wet summer, resulted in the temporary closure of the Klondike Highway... Comments
MAX completes 2008 drilling at Gold Hill 08/21/2008 MAX Resource Corp. Aug. 18 said it has completed a 10-hole diamond drill program totaling 7,664 feet, or more than 2,358 meters, at its Gold Hill molybdenum project in Alaska. The 2008 drill program f... Comments
State launches Ballot Measure 4 Web site 08/21/2008 The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, working with the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Law on August 19 launched a Web site to provide Alaska voters factual inform...Comments
Dawson-area placer gold project gets OK 08/21/2008 Klondike Gold Corp. Aug. 19 said the board of directors of joint venture partner Klondike Star Mineral Corp. recently determined that the Indian River property near Dawson City, Yukon has probable min... Comments
News Nuggets 08/21/2008 GOLD - Geoinformatics Exploration Inc. August 18 announced it has entered into binding agreements with Geologic Resource Partners LLC of Boston, Massachusetts to receive a C$5.5 million short-term sec... Comments
Anti-ballot measure group reports spending, protests opponents 08/14/2008 Alaskans Against the Mining Shutdown July 29 reported spending $5.5 million through July 25 in its campaign to persuade voters to reject Measure 4 in the Aug. 26 primary election. In filings to the Al... Comments
Contractor fined for accident at Rock Creek 08/14/2008 The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration on Thursday fined Alaska Mechanical Inc. $115,000 for inadequate training and unsafe equipment use. The fines were the result of an...Comments
Freegold vested in Rob property 08/14/2008 Freegold Ventures Limited August 12 announced it has now has 100 percent interest in the underlying long-term lease of the Rob property 20 miles east of the Pogo gold mine.
To earn its 100 percent in... Comments
News Nuggets 08/14/2008 The Alaska Oil & Gas Association Board of Directors passed a resolution on August 7 opposing Ballot Measure 4 on the August 26 Alaska Primary Election ballot. AOGA said it opposes the measure because... Comments
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