Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Australia’s North Ltd. and Spokane, Wash.-based Metalline Mining (MMGG-O) have formed a joint venture to explore the Sierra Mojada zinc project in the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila.North can …

Atacama Minerals (AAM-V) is proceeding with development of the Aguas Blancas iodine heap-leach project in northern Chile.The project comprises 22,000 ha in the Atacama Desert, 95 km southeast of the p…

Cyprus Amax (CYM-N), clearing the decks for its merger with Phelps Dodge (PD-N), has arranged to sell its 31% holding in gold producer Kinross Gold (K-T) for $356 million.The deal will see t…

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Regional officials in the prolific gold and silver region of Magadan, in northeastern Russia, have approved the financing of 11 upgrade and construction projects to the tune US$631.6 million.The news …

Lonmin has come through with a merger offer for troubled Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N), valuing the Ghanaian gold miner at US$820 million.The London-based platinum producer was offering 0.744 share for e…

After several weeks of excitement, gold started to settle down during the holiday-shortened Oct. 6-12 report period, with spot prices restricted to within the US$315-325-per-oz. range. Over the week, …

Although no significant mineralization was encountered in last year’s limited drilling on the Coiron property in the Chilean Andes, a re-interpretation of the data from a subsequent induced-polarizati…

Peruvian Gold (PVO-V) and Imperial Metals (IPM-T) have encountered encouraging silver-zinc-lead values at their jointly held Silvertip project in northern British Columbia.The second hole of a 3-hole …