Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Major companies rarely bother exploring properties unless they see potential for mineral deposits big enough, or rich enough, to make an important contribution to their bottom line. That, in a nutshel…

Junior Fort Knox Gold Resources (FNX-T) will get a helping hand from its major shareholder, Inco (N-T), in its quest for Labrador properties prospective for Voisey’s Bay-type nickel-copper-cobalt depo…

After a startup period of less than a month, the Bougrine mine in Tunisia, has begun cranking out zinc and lead at commercial levels.The mine’s owner, Breakwater Resources (BWR-T), reports that mill t…

Raudin Exploration (RAU-M) has unveiled its first resource estimate for its Vondenbleu copper-silver property in the Mont-Alexandre area of Quebec’s Gasp Peninsula.Based on a 7,800-metre program comp…

A second round of drilling at the La Manchuria gold-silver property in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province has returned variable results for Vancouver-based Abacus Minerals (AMC-V).Five of the six holes c…

Five mining firms have claimed health and safety awards in Ontario, while in British Columbia, a bevy of companies and individuals earned citations at a provincial competition in mine rescue and first…

In April, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, two directors of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX.A-N) liquidated stock, while three others increased their holdings…

Mining analyst George Topping of Deacon Capital is keeping a close eye on results from exploration programs being carried out by Birim Goldfields (BGI-T) and its joint-venture partners in Ghana, West …

The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index gained 1.54 points, or 0.3%, to close at 532.44 over the report period ended June 23. The mining index edged down 0.99 of a point, or a quarter of a percen…