Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Mining in the main pit at the Samira Hill gold mine in Niger, West Africa. Partners Etruscan Resources and Semafo believe the deposit is just one of several in the emerging "Samira Horizon."

Jubilant partners scale Samira Hill

Niamey, Niger — It doesn’t happen all that often, and until now it had never happened in Niger, but partners Etruscan Resources (EET-T) and Semafo (SMF-T) have opened a gold mine.


Inco to go ahead with Goro (November 01, 2004)

Inco (N-T) will proceed with construction at the Goro nickel-laterite project in New Caledonia, following a review of estimates that put the capital cost of the project at just under US$1.9 billion.


Dynasty Gold makes splash in western China

Urumchi, China — Dynasty Gold (DYG-V) has amassed the largest land position of any foreign company exploring for minerals in western China. The Vancouver-based junior has properties in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Qinghai pr…


Nobody knows our Soros

The forthcoming presidential election in the United States crept up on us, not so much because we can’t read a calendar as because the year-long crawl to the first Tuesday in November seemed not to be going anywhere very fast.


Stoping methods

The following is an excerpt from the ninth edition of Mining Explained, published by The Northern Miner.


Aussie gold exploration on rise

The Australian gold industry spent A$7.4 billion on capital, operational and exploration expenditures in 2002-3, according to the 2004 Gold Investment Survey.


St. Jude to fast-track Benso

Vancouver With over 1.3 million oz. gold tabled on St. Jude Resources’ (SJD-V) combined Benso and Hwini Butre pro…




TSX rejigs tickers

The TSX Group (X-T) is taking steps to clarify the much-maligned multiple and subordinate classes of shares that no…



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