Articles by Northern Miner Staff



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.


WMC studies Olympic Dam

Aussie nickel major WMC Resources (WMC-N) has earmarked A$50 million over two years to study whether there should be an expansion of the Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine in South Australia.


Photo by Viceroy Exploration -- A drill tests Viceroy Exploration's Gualcamayo gold project in the northern portion of Argentina's San Juan province.

Viceroy rolls the dice in Argentina

Vancouver — Northwestern Argentina is an emerging gold district relative to the prolific, more mature El Indio and Maricunga belts across the mountains in neighbouring Chile. Yet junior companies such as Viceroy Exploration (VY…


Construction of the mill and conveyor belt at the El Sauzal gold project in Mexico.

Glamis looks to Americas for growth

With two low-cost gold mines under construction in Mexico and Guatemala, Glamis Gold (GLG-T) expects to increase its production to more than 600,000 oz. by 2006 at a total projected cash cost of well under US$150 per oz.


The Gidgee gold mine in Western Australia is making money for Legend Mining.

New gold rush in Western Australia

Anyone dismissing the gold potential of the two Western Australian gold mining centres of Sandstone and Gidgee, which are only 90 km apart, will have to think again, as the area appears set to experience a gold rush.



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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