PEOPLE — CONT’L COPPER (September 15, 1997)
M. Schorn appointed director.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Breakwater acquires Tunisian zinc-lead mine
Breakwater Resources (BWR-T) has acquired the Bougrine zinc-lead mine in Tunisia, together with all other assets of Socit Minire de Bourgrine.The Toronto-based company will pay US$19.3 million for the…
Vedron tallies resource at Fuller
Surrounded by some of the most productive mines of the Porcupine gold camp, the Fuller property, southeast of Timmins, Ont., yielded only limited amounts of gold from mining efforts in the 1950s and 1…
Westmin, Atna identify new zone at Wolverine project
Partners Westmin Resources (WMI-T) and Atna Resources (ATN-T) have drilled into a narrow interval of high-grade massive sulphide mineralization in the Sable area of the Wolverine project in southeaste…
Drill program expands Lookout zone at Niblack
A $3-million, 38,000-ft. drilling program is drawing to a close at Abacus Minerals’ (AMC-V) Niblack volcanogenic massive sulphide project on Prince of Wales Island in southeastern Alaska.The bulk of t…
Tiomin extends oxide zone at Cerro Colorado
Tiomin Resources (TIO-T) has released results from several new holes drilled at its Cerro Colorado porphyry copper project in Panama.The latest holes are part an ongoing 3,000-metre program designed t…
Nord drills deeper in PNG
With the aid of an induced-polarization (IP) survey, Nord Pacific (NPF-T) has intercepted high-grade gold values at its Tabar Islands project in Papua New Guinea.The company initiated the survey over …
BHP, Northern Orion hit high grade in Argentina
High-grade gold and silver values have been intersected at the Agua Rica project in the northwestern Argentine province of Catamarca.Agua Rica is a large porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum deposit…
Aranlee hits copper, gold in central Kazakstan
A geochemical sampling program by Aranlee Resources (ARB-V) at the Agadyr exploration licence in central Kazakstan has identified three prospective areas of mineralization.At the 640-sq.-km Zhekeduan …
ODDS ‘N’ SODS — Good help is hard to find
The Paymaster gold mine, near Timmins, Ont., reopened in 1933 under the ownership of Paymaster Consolidated Gold Mines, after that company had acquired several adjoining properties.The master mechanic…
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (September 08, 1997)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Sept.2/97 (change from previous week in brackets):MetalStocks (tonnes)Change…
COMMENTARY — Deforestation and mercury
Deforestation, rather than mining activity, is responsible for mercury exposure among villagers living downstream from an artisanal gold mining area along the Tapaj-s River in the Amazon Basin, accord…