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Venture continues downward slide Sept. 26-30 Vancouver - The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index had another tough week, dropping 78.91 points in the September 26 to 30 period to end at 1,467.17 points. Volume remained elevated with an average of 98.5 million shares traded daily. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-10-03 19:36:55

TSX moves slightly up, Sept 26-30 After the previous sour trading week, the TSX Composite Index gained 160.97 points to close the Sept. 26-30 period at 11,623.84, despite rising concerns over the U.S. economy and the European debt crisis. However, that upward movement was not... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-10-03 19:36:55

Ucore reports positive recoveries from Bokan Mtn REE project Vancouver - Metallurgical testing on Ucore Rare Metals' (UCU-V) Bokan Mountain project in southeastern Alaska has shown encouraging recoveries for both light and heavy rare earth elements. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-10-03 19:36:54

Wealth Minerals focuses on rare earths With the Chinese recently choking the supply for rare earths, there's a race to get new production from outside China. Specialty minerals explorer Wealth Minerals (WML-V) is part of that hustle, touting its Rodeo de los Molles deposit in... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-30 19:37:12

Highland Valley union demands more of everything from Teck Vancouver - "Ask not what you can do for Teck, but what Teck can do for you." Such is the current motto of United Steelworkers Local 7619, which represents roughly 1,050 of the 1,250 workers at Teck Resources' (TCK-T, TCK-N) Highland Valley... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-30 19:37:12

Mexican army brought in to guard Excellon's La Platosa mine About 300 Mexican army troops, federal and state police have surrounded and blocked the entrances to Excellon Resources' (EXN-T, EXLLF-Q) La Platosa underground silver-lead-zinc mine in Durango State, according to reports by the United... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-30 19:37:11

China's Minmetals strikes again Minmetals Resources, in which China's state-owned Minmetals Group holds a majority stake, is flexing its muscle again with a friendly takeover offer for Anvil Mining (AVM-T), a Canadian company with a copper mine in the Democratic Republic of... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-30 19:37:11

Sabina finding deeper mineralization at Goose claims Vancouver - Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) continues to churn out drill results as it works towards resource updates and a scoping study for its Back River project in Nunavut. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-30 19:37:10

Precious Metals Summit re-cap part II: Gabriel gathers mommentum The trials and tribulations of Gabriel Resources (GBU-T) and its Rosia Montana project have been well documented over the years. Indeed tapping the incredible mineral wealth of the project has been a cumbersome process for the company as NGO's... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-30 19:37:10

Highlights from Precious Metals Summit, Part I Over the next to days The Northern Miner will look back at some of the stand-out presentations from the Precious Metals Summit, which took place in Vail, Colorado in mid-September. Today's segment will look at presentations made by the chief... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-29 19:36:09

Political risks growing with commodity prices, fund managers say While most gold miners at the Denver Gold Forum last week touted their increasing dividends and "undervalued" stocks, fund managers warned that political risk is a bigger issue than many companies are willing to acknowledge. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-29 19:36:09

Highland Valley union demanding more of everything from Teck Vancouver - "Ask not what you can do for Teck, but what Teck can do for you." Such is the current ethos of United Steelworkers Local 7619, which represents roughly 1,050 of the 1,250 workers at Teck Resources' (tck-t, tck-n) Highland Valley... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-29 19:36:08

GeoMega's Montviel is no longer a secret "The secret will be out with the initial resource estimate," said GeoMega's (GMA-V) president Simon Britt, referring to the potential at the company's Montviel carbonatite rare earth elements (REE) property in Abitibi, Que. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-29 19:36:08

Mongolian MPs post hostile letter about OT In an open letter to Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L) published yesterday on Mongolian website medee.nn, a group of twenty parliamentarians in Mongolia reportedly accused the government of breaking the law when it concluded an investment agreement (IA)... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-29 11:38:30

Plunging gold prices knock down the TSX, Sept.19-23 It was a horrendous trading week for the Canadian markets as prices for gold and silver crashed.   [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-28 19:37:34

Nevada copper lures Enexco south Having some money kicking around from the old uranium boom days has its advantages. International Enexco (IEC-V) made its name as a uranium play over five years ago at the height of the buzz over the radioactive metal as the prospectiveness of... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-28 19:37:33

Allana Potash adopts shareholder rights plan In an effort to discourage any unsolicited and unfair takeover bids Allana Potash (AAA-T, ALLRF-O) announced yesterday that it is adopting a shareholder rights plan. But the company emphasized that while it is in talks with various strategic... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-28 19:37:33

Rio revisits Saskatchewan's potash scene Rio Tinto (RIO-N) is investing back into potash, after selling its potash interests in Canada and Argentina to Vale (VALE-N) for US$850 million in 2009 to help pay off its debt during the 2008-09 recession. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-28 19:37:32

Venture falls to 13-month low during Sept. 19-23 Vancouver - The S&P TSX Venture Exchange Index lost a dismal 216.77 points during the Sept. 19-23 period, falling to a 13-month low at 1,534.18 points. The index declined on all five days as European debt worries and slower-than-expected... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-27 19:35:49

A Mutiny at Gullewa The Gullewa project in Western Australia has attracted some interest of late both for its high grade gold, silver and copper mineralization and for the wheeling and dealing being done around it. The project had, just a short time ago, been the... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-27 19:35:48

Commentary: Resource Development and Indigenous Peoples - Finding the path to co-operation The following is an edited portion of a speech given in Toronto in early September by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo at a joint luncheon of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Indigenous Bar Association. For the full... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-27 19:35:48

Mandalay looks for discounted properties The strategy at gold and antimony producer Mandalay Resources (MND-T) is to find assets that can generate enough cash to grow themselves and so far that strategy appears to be working at the junior's mines in Australia and Chile. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-27 19:35:48

Vista Gold boosts resources at Mt. Todd Vista Gold (vgz-t, vgz-x) is on a move to bring its Mt. Todd gold project in Australia's Northern Territories to feasibility and permitting. [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-27 19:35:47

Wall Street was a sea of red, Sept. 19-23 It was a disastrous week on Wall Street as mounting fears about the possibility of a double-dip recession pummeled U.S. equities. Continued anxiety over debt in Europe and sobering comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve contributed to the... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-27 19:35:47

Precious Metals Summit stakes its claim as destination number one for juniors Think of a mining conference in the latter half of the year and your mind probably goes to the Denver Gold Forum - which remains one of the premier mining destinations on the calendar year. And while there are no shortage of top level... [Full Story] Category: News Newspaper: Northern Miner Region: Northern Canada Feed: Headline News Date: 2011-09-26 19:35:26

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