Alberta Star boosts financing to $10.5M
Vancouver — Strong market conditions have prompted
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Steel protests delay of exhaust rules
A proposal from the United States Department of Labor to change the timing of new rules on underground exhaust emissions has met with protests from the United Steelworkers of America….
Permit delay costs Las Cristinas
An updated feasibility study of the large, low-grade Las Cristinas gold-copper project Venezuela has boosted capital costs by 10% for developer
Ursa faces fight for Shakespeare
Toronto-based junior
Jericho: Canada’s next diamond mine
Jericho, Nunavut — By early next year, the Jericho diamond project in Canada’s Far North will be producing its first diamonds. It will be Canada’s third diamond mine and Nunavut’s first….
An explosives issue
Four years after the 9/11 attacks, it’s clear to everyone that the U.S. government is back in a big way, after years of restrained growth in the 1990s….
Higher gold price brings better times to Nevada
Nevada’s minerals industry had an outstanding 2004, and the good times have continued into the first half of 2005….
Producer and Dealer Prices (September 19, 2005)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$3,775/t….
BC safety record no accident
The mining industry has become the safest heavy industry in British Columbia. In fact, the injury rate for workers in the mining industry is now three times lower than the next closest sector in the c…
APGO seeks volunteers
The Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO) is establishing a pool of members to serve on its disciplinary panels….
MDN eyes Eritrean targets (September 19, 2005)
Channel sampling on the contiguous Seroa and Seroa Hill exploration licences in Eritrea have turned up two new mineralized targets for
Cumberland drills new Meadowbank zone
Vancouver — A near-surface gold discovery is adding to the potential of the advanced Meadowbank project near Baker Lake, in the Kivalliq district of Nunavut….