Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Aussie deaths prompt gov’t visit

Management officials at BHP Iron Ore in Australia are slated to meet with Western Australia’s development minister, Clive Brown, following fatal accidents at two of the company’s sites.





Silver bulls sent back to the waiting room

With cries of “hi-ho silver!”, a small but vocal army of silver bulls rejoiced as the white metal soared to 16-year highs in the first quarter of 2004. But like so many times before, the euphoria was short-lived.


Corriente updates Mirador (May 31, 2004)

Vancouver — The results of a 27-hole drill program by Corriente Resources (CTQ-T) will be integrated into a feasibility study of the Mirador copper-gold project in Ecuador.


Redcorp drill-tests Tulsequah Chief

Vancouver — Assays are in hand for the first two holes of a drill program at the Tulsequah Chief mine property, near Atlin in northwestern British Columbia.




Wayne Reid, St. Andrew Goldfields' exploration manager, and Ellsworth Dickson of Resource World Magazine examine drill core at the Stock Mine east of Timmins.

Clavos shows promise for St Andrew

Timmins, Ont. — Tempora mutantur, said Ovid, though he was probably not thinking about the recovery of the gold market when he did. But in Timmins, the times have changed, enough that a camp that lost one of its major gold producers in 1999 is be…


Open-pit mining of nickel-laterite ore at PT Inco's Saroako operations in Indonesia.

Inco updates Goro

In its preliminary findings from a major review of its 85%-owned Goro nickel-laterite project in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, Inco (N-T) has managed to come up with a new mine plan that will simultaneously lowe…


RNC boosts gold reserves (May 31, 2004)

Toronto-based RNC Gold (RNC-T), owner and operator of most of Greenstone Resources’ old gold assets in Central America, has expanded its reserves and resources at the La Libertad and Bonanza mines in Nicaragua and the Cerro Quem…


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