Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Northern Orion (NNO-T) has granted Brooks Resources (BRC-V) an option to earn up to a 60% interest in the Campana Mahuida copper project in Argentina.The geologic resource is estimated at 76.15 millio…

Antoine Laoun appointed director and chairman of the audit committee.

Thomas Vehrs appointed president and chief operating officer.

Gold Funds as of February 27, 1997BGRCentralNet Value$23.11$6.26Price$19.35…

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Mar.3/97 (change from previous week in brackets):Aluminium882,450(-18,800)Copper214,800(-5,250)Lead108,025(-450)Nickel45,618…

Construction is nearly complete and startup is fast approaching for the Lihir gold mine, on the tiny island of the same name.It will be the largest mine in the world to open in 1997, and when The Nort…

Ongoing exploration by Yamana Resources (YRI-T) will test an aeromagnetic anomaly and associated gold mineralization in the northern portion of the company’s Block I contact-of-work (CoW) application,…

In the mid-1980s, the Kidd Creek zinc-copper mine in Timmins, Ont., began a blast-monitoring program in conjunction with Canadian Industries Limited (CIL) and Porcupine Powder.I was the Kidd Creek rep…

Ian Bayer appointed chief executive officer and Karl Elers appointed non-executive chairman.

The state of Africa’s mining industry will be addressed at the next luncheon meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum, to be held at 12 noon on March 12 at Constitution Hall…

Refined copper and refined lead were the only Canadian-produced non-ferrous commodities that did not experience a decrease in production between December 1995 and December 1996.The production of nonme…

Graduate geology students at the University of Quebec will host their 10th annual nickel symposium in Chicoutimi on March 7.The event, entitled “Nickel in Quebec: Potential on the Rise,” will feature …