Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Vancouver — Disappointing results from a second phase of drilling on the Yellowjacket project near Atlin, B.C., are nonetheless shedding light on the nature of the gold mineralization.

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Vancouver — Initial assays from Kaieteur Resource‘s (KTR-V) Altan Uul (Gold Mountain) project, in the south Gobi region of Mongolia, failed to show pervasive gold mineralization.

Diamond explorers are returning to Sierra Leone and neighbouring West African countries amid signs that political stability is taking hold in the region after years of civil war.

Vancouver-based DiamondWorks was one of the more controversial diamond producers of the late 1990s, operating two rich mines in Sierra Leone and Angola until both operations were overwhelmed by civil strife and the company was pushed to the edge o…

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First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) has entered a deal to acquire an 80% interest in a copper-gold project in western Mauritania.

We note that Vancouver-based reporter Brent Mudry, who livened the pages (and web pages) of Canada Stockwatch for a decade, has left his keyboard to become a civilian investigator for the Integrated Market Enforcement Team of the Royal Canadian Mo…

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American Diamonds and Firestone Diamonds (FDI-L) are joining forces to explore for diamonds in the U.S. The former is jointly owned by Dunsmuir Ventures (DW-V) and Majescor Resources (MAJ-V)…

Cancor Mines (KCR-T) and Cambior (CBJ-T) have intersected massive sulphide lenses with significant gold and silver assays on their Gemini-Turgeon project, 80 km north of La Sarre in Quebec’s Abitibi region.