Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Junior Armada Gold (AAU-T) has closed a $1.4-million private placement with Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion aimed at financing exploration work in Siberia and Mongolia.The financing consists of 6.6 millio…

Juniors Minorca Resources (MAR-T) and Tan Range Exploration (TNX-A) will shortly sign a formal agreement to jointly explore the latter’s Itetemia gold property in the Lake Victoria Goldfields region o…

An increasingly stable political climate and positive changes to mining and tax legislation are making Guatemala a more attractive destination for Canadian junior explorers.The country’s 36-year civil…

To illustrate that all that glitters is not gold, Diagem International Resource (DGM-V) recently invited the The Northern Miner to view an 80-carat diamond being polished in Vancouver, B.C.The diamond…

A sampling program by Sur American Gold (SUR-V) has resulted in a gold-silver discovery within siliceous sinters at the company’s 100%-owned Gavia project in western Colombia. The sinters occur as bou…

Now that feasibility work is under way at its Don Mario gold-copper deposit, Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) has launched an aggressive exploration program aimed at expanding reserves and testing new targets …

Vancouver-based Rondal Gold (RGD-A) has acquired, in central Mexico, a 49% stake in a group of claims prospective for gold-silver-copper mineralization.The company, formerly known as Prior Resources a…

With its eye on the copper and gold exploration potential of Peru, Inca Pacific Resources (IP-V) has, over the past five years, amassed a substantial portfolio of properties in the most promising meta…

A year ago, delegates attending the Investing in the Americas conference in this popular tourist destination were reeling from reports that Bre-X Minerals had little, if any, gold at its Busang projec…

In early January, Vancouver-based Miranda Industries (MAD-V) announced it had acquired a 20-sq.-km land package in the northern Mexican state of Sonora through staking.The claim block covers an area w…

Rockwell Ventures (RCW-V) is marketing a unique product to mining investors: a chance to search for the missing piece of the largest copper deposit in the world.The Denver-based company, which only re…

The La Trinidad mine in Sinaloa state, Mexico, has proved to be a good buy for Eldorado Gold (ELD-T), which credits its purchase of full ownership with an 83% increase in gold production in 1997.Produ…