Where do we go from here?
Along with salt and sharp-edged weapons-grade obsidian and chalcedony (flint), coloured gemstones probably have been mined longer than any other mineral commodities known to man. However, it is only o…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Gold prices revive NWT projects
Improved metal prices have always had a way of giving new life to old projects, so it need not be a surprise that the recent rise in the gold price has acted like a defibrillator on several projects i…
Yukon gold, gem exploration heats up
While discoveries of emerald and beryl in the Finlayson Lake area have enjoyed the highest profile, the territory’s last producer was the Brewery Creek gold mine, and gold is still a mainstay of miner…
Golden Hills shines for QGX
Impressive drill results keep rolling in for QGX (QGX-V) at its Golden Hills massive sulphide project in western Mongolia.The latest batch comes from the final 10 diamond drill holes (numbered 49-57) …
Editorial Cartoon (January 26, 2004)
Gold rally will continue: GFMS
Gold Fields Mineral Services expects gold prices to continue rallying over the first half of the new year, perhaps surpassing US$450 per oz. before this period is out.That was among the predictions of…
All it took was a mining revival Go west, again
Vancouver’s Mineral Exploration Roundups have, for the past several years, been the most optimistic of the mineral industry’s get-togethers.Sometimes the optimism has grown out of a discovery — for e…
Suppliers Roundup (January 26, 2004)
JV to review Inco’s GoroInco has awarded a US$39.5-million contract to Foster Wheeler and SNC-Lavalin, which will jointly review the Goro nickel-laterite project in New Caledonia.The 50-50 joint ventu…
Bacon at meeting
Gordon Bacon, vice-president of technology and engineering with Inco, will talk about hydrometallurgy for Voisey’s Bay concentrates at the next meeting of the the Minerals Economics Society Discussion…
Development projects look good for Coeur d’Alene
Silver major Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) is enjoying better-then-expected results from ongoing feasibility studies at its San Bartolome silver project in southern Bolivia and Kensington gold project i…
People (January 26, 2004)
Aker Kvaerner — David Lawson appointed head of Chilean operations; Don Gale appointed head of Canadian operations.Cazaly Resources — Clive Jones appointed joint managing director with current managi…
The Northern Miner Indices (January 26, 2004)
North American Mining: 106.00 (-0.79)Small Producers: 112.22 (-3.26)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…