No resource yet at Sepola
Resource Service Group is rejecting widely publicized claims that it had quantified a significant resource at the Sepola gold project in Mali for owner Hyundai.Rick Yates, director of the Australian-b…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Franco trades mine for 20% of Normandy
A market that was plainly awaiting a merger announcement may have been nonplussed, but Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) has agreed to exchange the Ken Snyder mine, the Midas property and Australian assets …
BHP aims to boost ownership of Ekati mine
Ending months of speculation, Australia’s BHP (BHP-N) has emerged as the only bidder for Dia Met Minerals (DMM-T) and its 29% stake in the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.BHP has offer…
Implats gains 30% of Zimplats, Ngezi mine project
Were it not for the ominous shadow of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, Australian-listed Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats) might have already developed its Ngezi open-pit mine and various other h…
Ashton keen on testing K252 pipe in Alberta
Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) has extracted a second mini-bulk drill sample, weighing 20 tonnes, from the K252 kimberlite on the Buffalo Hills joint-venture property in north-central Alberta.The wor…
Ivanhoe homes in on discovery
Ongoing exploration at a new gold discovery in South Korea has returned more encouraging results for Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T).Ten trenches dug across one of the veins yielded 1.2-102.1 grams gold and 0.6…
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Novagold eyes Donlin deposit
Vancouver — Junior Novagold Resources (NRI-T) has inked a deal with Placer Dome (PDG-T) to earn a majority interest in the 13-million-oz. Donlin Creek gold deposit in southwestern Alaska.”Our strateg…
Namco calls shareholders to a vote
Namibian Minerals (NMR-T) is a step closer to raising US$15 million, having inked marketing and financing contracts with the Leviev Group of Israel.The deals, aimed at preventing the company’s liquida…
Cominco cuts output
The world’s largest zinc miner is once again curtailing production in order to take advantage of an energy crisis that has boosted the spot price of power in the western United States by almost 10 tim…