Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Letter to the editor: U.S. reader assails Chretien

If Canada desires to follow a narrow-minded, provincial Quebecois as its leader, so be it. You make your bed, . . .In the future, I hope other Americans remember Canada’s spinelessness. Actually it is…


New Macassa discovery shapes up

Follow-up underground drilling has extended the newly discovered D zone at the Macassa mine, west of Kirkland Lake, Ont.Kirkland Lake Gold (kgi-t) sunk six stepout holes on 15-to-30-metre centres from…


Two upstarts challenge the coal giants

Last year’s deals between Fording Coal, Sherritt International (s-t), the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Teck Cominco (tek-t) neatly divided the world of Canadian coal production; thermal coal as…


The Russian market

It is estimated a third of the world’s mineral reserves are in Russia, where the mining market is dominated by Norilsk Nickel, diamond miner Alrosa, and oil and gas giant Sakhalin. These companies inv…


EXTECH IV brings co-op spirit to Athabasca Basin

According to government figures, the amount of nuclear energy used in the production of world electrical power between 1971 and 1990 jumped more than eight times, from 2% to 17%. In 2001, Saskatchewan…



Golds flat as broad market rebounds

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index advanced 27.56 points to end the April 2-8 report period at 6,438.71 as the U.S.-led coalition marched into Baghdad and raised hopes for a quick co…


Anglo greases drills at Boyongan project

Vancouver — Anglo American (AAUK-Q) is sending eight drill rigs to explore the Boyongan project in the southern Philippines. The property is held equally by Anglo American and Philex Gold (PGI-V).Ang…



Cheviot mine on hold

Poor markets for metallurgical coal have caused Fording Canadian Coal Trust (fdg.un-t) to suspend development at its Cheviot coal project near Hinton, Alta., until markets improve.Cheviot, which had b…


Andes cuts new zone at San Jose

Vancouver — Spokane-based Minera Andes (MAI-V) has intersected a new zone of high-grade gold and silver mineralization at its San Jose project in southern Argentina.The best drill intercept returned …


Suncor unveils $3b expansion plan

Calgary-based integrated oil giant Suncor Energy (su-t) intends to spend C$3 billion to boost its projected daily oil-sands output to 330,000 barrels by the end of 2007 from 260,000 barrels in 2005.Th…


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