Articles by Northern Miner Staff
A Really big deal in Yellowknife
The following is the last of three excerpts from the book Quin Kola: Tom Payne’s Search for Gold, published by Crossfield Publishing in Okotoks, Alta. The author is the daughter of Tom Payne and presi…
Con mine closes doors
The Con gold mine, in Yellowknife, N.W.T., has shut down after 65 years of operation, owing to ore depletion.As a result, owner Miramar Mining has had to issue about 190 pink slips.The territorial gov…
QGX tests Mongolian porphyry targets
Having estabished its exploration prowess at the Golden Hills property in Mongolia, QGX (QGX-V) is now active in an underexplored region in the country’s southeast.QGX, which recently attracted the at…
Breakwater clears hurdle
Agreements between Breakwater Resources (BWR-T) and its lenders will allow an 85.8-million-share issue to go ahead, providing the financially troubled base metal miner with a cash infusion of $30 mill…
SouthernEra advances Messina, raises C$77m (December 08, 2003)
Toronto-based SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T) is using a staged approach to develop its Messina platinum assets, 250 km northeast of Johannesburg on the eastern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld igneous c…
Teck, EPA at loggerheads
Talks have broken off between enforcement staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Teck Cominco (TEK-T), after the EPA refused an offer from the company to fund environmental site e…
De Beers to bring Gahcho Kue to feasibility (December 08, 2003)
Budgets have been approved for a full feasibility study at the Gahcho Kue (Kennady Lake) diamond property in the Northwest Territories. The project is being operated by De Beers Consolidated Mining on…
The No-parking zone
Ontario prospectors are shortly to gather for an annual show-and-tell session in Toronto, making this week a convenient time to take a look at how that part of the mineral industry is faring.Certainly…
Spot Prices Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003 Courtesy of Scotiabank
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$401.35+9.85Silver$5.46+0.25Platinum$776.00+18.00…
Jaguar Nickel fires up pilot plant (December 08, 2003)
Junior Jaguar Nickel (JNI-T) has started up a pilot plant designed to test the viability of its proprietary atmospheric chloride-leach process on ore samples from the Sechol nickel-cobalt laterite pro…
Madsen program shapes up for Claude, Placer
Red Lake, Ont. — The Red Lake gold camp of northwestern Ontario had, over the years, come to look fairly simple: two big mines, one very big orebody, and very little going on outside the fences at Ca…