Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

Rising interest rates and inflation worries sent Toronto stocks into convulsions during the Oct. 18-24 report period. The S&P TSX Composite Index yo-yo’d another 192.65 points lower to 10,360.79….

Diamonds North exploration geologist Dale Mah stands between two Inukshuks, an Inuit word meaning "likeness of a person," on the company's 14,500-sq.-km Hepburn diamond property in the Northwest Territories, 300 km north of Yellowknife on the western margin of the Slave craton. Senior Staff Writer Rob Robertson looks at diamond exploration activity in Canada's Far North.

News November 1, 2005

Searching for ‘rocks’ in rolling Arctic

Diamonds North leads juniors in exploration…

News November 1, 2005

Pacifica sees mega-mine potential at Howard’s Pass

Whitehorse, Yukon — Improved prospects for zinc and new roads and rails in this northern territory have prompted Pacifica Resources (PAX-V) to revive a zinc-lead-silver project that has sat dormant f…

News November 1, 2005

CNQ to launch new market

The Canadian Trading and Quotation System (CNQ) plans to launch an alternative market sometime in early 2006 to provide investors with another means by which to invest in Toronto Stock Exchange-listed…

From left: Yukon Zinc President Harlan Meade, Project Geologist Gilles Dessureau, and Vice-President of Mining Richard Goodwin hold some of the first ore to be brought out of the portal at the Wolverine zinc-copper-lead deposit in eastern Yukon.

News November 1, 2005

Yukon Zinc in planning mode at Wolverine

Whitehorse, Yukon — The old saying that “mines are not found, but made” doesn’t always hold true, and can be wishful thinking in cases where deposits have too many flaws for engineers to overcome. Wh…