Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Journalists and analysts at Tagish Lake Gold's Skukum Creek gold-silver project during a recent site visit.

Tagish aims to revive historic mining district

Whitehorse, Yukon — With known resources in three deposits and a 300-tonne-per-day mill in place, Tagish Lake Gold (TLG-V) believes it is “30 months and $30 million” from productio…




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.

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…


Inco follows Voisey’s junior to Greenland

In a strange twist of fate, Inco (N-T, N-N) and the diamond explorer that discovered the Voisey’s Bay nickel mine have ended up together again — this time in Greenland….


Century cuts gold at Lamaque Far North

A drilling campaign to assess targets on the Lamaque property in Val d’Or, Que., has indicated gold mineralization on both the Main Plug and West Plug intrusive bodies….



One of many Canadian drill rigs testing Bema Gold's Kupol gold-silver property in the Chukotka region of Russia's Far East. Kupol contains an indicated 3.1 million oz. gold and 39.7 million oz. silver, plus an inferred 1.2 million oz. gold and 16.9 million oz. silver.

Bema’s Kupol on fast-track for 2008

London, U.K. — The inhabitants of Chukotka’s frozen tundra must think they’re the luckiest people in the world. Billionaire Roman Abramovich — the oil mogul best known in the U.K. for lavishing mill…


Tethyan returns Reko Diq to drawing board

Despite favourable new drill results, Tethyan Copper (TYC-A) has sent an unfinished feasibility study on development of the Reko Diq porphyry-copper deposits back to the drawing boa…


Taking on PBS and the New York Times

The Public Broadcast System’s Frontline special on “The Curse of Inca Gold,” which aired on Oct. 25, 2005, and the accompanying New York Times investigative series, has put the gold mining industry un…


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