Rockwell unravels Pedra Branca puzzle
Fortaleza, Brazil — Some 250 km southwest of this busy port city, structural deformation has transformed one of the world’s largest layered mafic intrusive complexes into a geological puzzle, which, …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Low-cost gold mines: the new survivors
As the gold price rallies, only to sink again, the measure of a good gold project is less and less its production and more and more its operating margin. The need to make money in a small way is winni…
Southwestern Gold active in Argentina, Peru
Denver — Faced with the impending South American winter, partners Southwestern Gold (SWG-T) and Consolidated Jaba (JBA-V) are hurrying to complete soil sampling on the Tecka layered mafic intrusion i…
Copper Ridge gains prospect
Copper Ridge Explorations (KRX-V) has struck a deal with Big Blackfoot Resources (BLF-V) to earn up to a 70% interest in a zinc-lead massive sulphide prospect in the Yukon Territory.Copper Ridge can e…
Trillion options Karasberg
Vancouver-based Consolidated Trillion Resources (TLQ-T) has secured rights to earn up to a 100% interest in the Karasberg project from a unit of BHP (BHP-N).Karasberg consists of five exclusive prospe…
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (May 28, 2001)
57.34 (+4.63)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Gold Fields, Outokumpu seek PGMs in Finland
World-wide interest in exploration for platinum and palladium continues to be stimulated by the dramatic rise in prices for these commodities. Since 1996, the price of palladium has steadily increased…
Partners discover third PGM layer at River Valley
Drilling appears to have intersected a third mineralized horizon at the River Valley platinum group metals property in the Sudbury region of Ontario.Toronto-based Mustang Minerals (YMU-V) and its Sout…
McVicar, BHP option Pigeon River (May 28, 2001)
Partners McVicar Minerals (MVR-V) and BHP (BHP-N) have optioned Falconbridge’s (FL-T) Pigeon River copper/nickel/platinum-group-element project, near Thunder Bay, Ont.The property includes 4…
Crystallex mining Lo Increible
Vancouver-based Crystallex International (KRY-T) has started mining at the La Victoria open pit, one of six gold deposits at the company’s newly acquired Lo Increible project in Venezuela’s El Callao …
Modi Taung yields more high grades
Geochemical sampling at the Modi Taung gold project in central Myanmar has turned up more nuggets for Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T).Tunneled into SW Zone 3, Adit 6 returned up to 321.7 grams gold per tonne ov…
Campbell spills more red ink, advances merger
The suspension of mining at two gold operations — one in Quebec, the other in Mexico — has pushed Campbell Resources (CCH-T) even deeper into the red.Coming on the heels of a $64-million loss for al…