Control of Indonesia’s KPC mine in dispute
Jakarta, Indonesia — PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), a massive open-pit mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is embroiled in a power struggle with local authorities. The struggle has occurred because KPC …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Healthy prices, discoveries spur nickel exploration
After losing ground to their trendy laterite cousins a few years ago, nickel sulphide deposits — hosts of the giant Sudbury, Voisey’s Bay and Norilsk orebodies — are back in fashion.Nickel sulphide …
Northair picks up Mexican property
Beating the bushes for projects in Durango state, Mexico, International Northair Mines (INM-V) has tied up six exploration concessions covering 10 sq. km and seven gold-silver showings.The new land pa…
Peeking under the covers
Geologists Down Under devise ways to penetrate overburdenAustralia is peeling back the layer of overburden that obscures most of the continent to find ore deposits previously hidden to exploration geo…
Canadian Royalties hits new zone (March 10, 2003)
Vancouver — The economic promise of the Expo-Ungava nickel-copper-platinum-palladium property got a shot in the arm following operator Canadian Royalties’ (CZZ-V) discovery of yet another high-grade …
Hansa takes over Rhonda claims
Thoroughly occupied by the Northwest Territories diamond hunt, Calgary-based Rhonda Corporation (RDM-V) has spun off its holdings in the Courageous Lake gold belt, north of Yellowknife, to affiliate H…
Exploration heats up in SW New Brunswick
Despite a slump in base metal exploration, 2002 proved to be a banner year for precious metals in New Brunswick. It was gold’s turn to shine as exploration efforts turned up widespread occurrences in …
Opawica finds high-grade in Brazil
Toronto-based Opawica Explorations (OPW-T) has received positive results from the first phase of due diligence at the Bom Jardim gold property in the Tapajos district of Para state in north-central Br…
Barron’s mugs Royal Gold
An exceedingly negative story about Royal Gold in the March 1 edition of Barron’s knocked a painful $6 off the gold royalty company’s shares, which dipped below US$14 before recovering to US$15.46 at …
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (March 10, 2003)
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Exploration work upgrades Northgate’s Kemess North
Vancouver — In 2002, Northgate Exploration (NGX-T) spent US$3.5 million drilling 42 holes at the Kemess North deposit in the Toodoggone River area of north-central British Columbia. In the process, t…
Doyon hoist needs repairs
A breakdown of the production hoist at Cambior’s (CBJ-T) Doyon mine, 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., may result in layoffs during an estimated 2-6 weeks of repairs.At presstime, the company was dis…