Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Air report a success: OMA

A final report from the Ontario Mining Association’s (OMA) compressed air leak management program, Implementing a Sustainable Compressed Air Leak Program, indicates mines in Ontario are now better pre…


Denison now holds most of OmegaCorp

Having relaxed its conditions to an earlier takeover offer, Denison Mines (DML-T, DNN-X) now has just under 79% of the shares of Australian-based uranium developer OmegaCorp (OMGCF-O, OMC-A).




PDAC endorses new flow-through initiative

The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) board of directors is endorsing an initiative to make Qualified Environmental Trust (QET) contributions that are applied to the reclamation …




TSX Venture Exchange July 24-30

In unison with other major markets, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 4.3% over the July 24-30 trading session to close down 142.8 points at 3,179.96. Average daily trading volumes were …


BY VIVIAN DANIELSONMetallurgist Jerry Alo, John Felderhof, project manager Michael De Guzman, and geologist Cesar Puspos at the Busang gold project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in 1996.

Felderhof acquitted

The former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof, has been acquitted of four charges of insider trading and four of misleading disclosure in connection with the 1997 Busang s…


NORTHGATE MINERALSDrill holes targeting deep induced-polarization anomalies east of Kemess North (pictured), have intersected long intervals of low-grade gold and copper mineralization in two zones, Ora and Altus.

New zones at Kemess

Exploration at the Kemess gold-copper project in northwestern British Columbia has shown two new porphyry copper-gold occurrences east of the known Kemess North deposit, one of which yielded the longe…


BY ANTHONY VACCAROAt Mines Management's Montanore silver project in Montana, a welder works to repair 4,270-metre adit, which was originally built by Noranda almost 20 years ago. Noranda eventually abandoned Montanore due to falling silver prices.

Seeking silver in Big Sky Country

SITE VISIT Libby, Montana — Tall pines blanket the Cabinet Mountains here in northwestern Montana, an area held up as some of the region’s most spectacular wilderness. It is home…



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