Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Anglo-Australian giant BHP Billiton (BHP-N) has approved a US$1.4-billion plan to develop its Ravensthorpe nickel laterite deposit in Western Australia. The scheme also calls for a doubling of capacity at the Yabulu nickel refin…

After a long wrangle over permitting, Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG.UN-T) and partner Teck Cominco (TEK-T) have decided to put the Cheviot coal project, near Hinton, Alta., into production.

Sparton Resources (SRI-V) can earn a 51% interest in the Sierra Rosario gold-silver project in Mexico’s Sinaloa state.

De Beers has recovered a 0.9-carat diamond from a bulk sample taken at the Festival property, north of Wawa, Ont. The project is a joint venture with Toronto-based diamond explorer Pele Mountain Resources (GEM…

Drilling by Canarc Resource (CCM-T) at the Benzdorp property in Suriname has extended the known length of the JQA gold-copper stockwork by a further 100 metres.

Yet again defying consensus predictions of a slowdown, metals demand appears to have accelerated in the first two months of 2004.

Two unrelated junior companies from the eastern and western shores of Canada are heading to Mongolia to explore their newly acquired mineral properties.

Vancouver — Terrorist retaliation fears against the U.S. over Israel’s shocking assassination of Hamas’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, helped fuel bond and bullion prices over the week ended March 23. The TSX Venture Exchange S&P composi…