Vale Voisey's Bay Operations (Nickel)

Vancouver — After a decade of false starts, mineral exploration is finally gaining some traction in Mongolia.A vast highland country, Mongolia is land-locked between Russia to the north and China to …

The Toronto Stock Exchange moved higher over the report period April 10-16, on news of improving economic fundamentals. Even a quarter-point rate hike by the Bank of Canada on the final day didn’t sto…

The opening month of 2002 provided a few signs that the mineral exploration business may at last be turning a corner.This year’s Cordilleran Roundup in Vancouver was the most successful in years, with…

The Northern Miner asked five market watchers of the junior mining and exploration sector for their top picks and opinions for the year ahead. This week we talked with John Kaiser, publisher of the Ka…

Ostensibly weary of politics after 24 years, Industry Minister and former Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin has announced he will leave public life to spend more time with his family.Whenever a politic…

Some are comparing 2001 with the first half of the 1980s, the last time metal prices were so bad. Others are comparing it with the depression after the crash of 1929. And so far, nobody has compared i…

Causing more sighs than cheers, the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index sank 116.32 points over the holiday-shortened period Aug. 29-Sept. 4. The broad market ended the period at 7,462.03, for a loss of …

Falconbridge (FL-T) has entered into an agreement with St. John’s, Nfld.-based Vulcan Minerals (VUL-V) to earn up to a 65% interest in a nickel sulphide prospect some 50 km northwest of the Voisey’s B…

With feasibility studies now complete, nickel producer Inco (N-T) has decided the Goro nickel project, in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, should be brought into production.Chairman Mich…

The plunging technology stocks led the Toronto Stock Exchange downward over the report period Feb. 21-27, even as most other sectors moved higher. The TSE 300 composite index lost 170.99 points, or 2….

Stymied in its offer to buy back 90% of its Class VBN shares (NV-T), Inco (N-T) has changed its strategy and is now seeking to retire the shares via a redemption.Originally, Inco offered to buy the se…

Your editorial of March 20, “Tobin vs. Schulich,” causes me to write my first-ever letter to the editor of a mining publication. While the editorial position of The Northern Miner on any issue involvi…