Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Stornoway Diamond (SWY-T), BHP Billiton Diamonds (BHP-N) and Hunter Exploration Group have discovered diamonds in all five of the kimberlites they sampled in 2004. The pipes are on the Aviat property in Nunavu…

Vancouver — The Eritrean government is seeking further meetings with foreign companies exploring for minerals in the East African country. The move comes four months after its surprising and unexplained ban on all exploration within its borders.

Tri Origin Exploration (TOE-V) has outlined gold geochemical anomalies at its Red Lake Extension property, 10 km southeast of the Red Lake mine in northern Ontario.

The Luscar Energy Partnership, which consists of equal partners Sherritt International (S-T) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, intends to double the capacity of the Coal Valley mine, 100 km south of Edson, Alta.

Having formally filed its takeover bid with regulators in Canada and the U.S., Glamis Gold (GLG-T) is mailing its offering circular to shareholders of Goldcorp (G-T).

Results from initial, independent sampling at Dianor‘s (DOR-V) new Leadbetter diamond property, near Wawa, Ont., are confirming the presence of diamonds and even suggesting the presence of a very large, near-surface diamond-mine…

Vancouver — An internal resource estimate suggests less tonnage but higher grades for the Kutcho Creek polymetallic project in north-central British Columbia.

First Nickel (FNI-T) has intersected significant nickel at its Dundonald property, 60 km east of Timmins, Ont.

IMA Exploration (IMR-V) is encouraged by results from channel sampling at the Navidad silver project in Argentina’s Patagonia region.

Vancouver — An independent estimate suggests Lumina Copper‘s (LCC-T) Regalito project has an indicated resource of 628 million tonnes grading 0.43% copper and an inferred resource of 131 million tonnes grading 0.41% copper.

It was anything but a happy new year for Fred Desjarlais, an employee of Cameco‘s (CCO-T) Key Lake uranium operations in northern Saskatchewan.