Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Eira Thomas appointed vice-president of exploration; Alan Bayless appointed vice-president of investor relations.

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Feb.3/97 (change from previous week in brackets):Aluminium938,475(-18,250)Copper200,500(+34,850)Lead111,425(-2,300)Nickel47,…

At the NWT Diamonds project near Lac de Gras, the richer Sable pipe has replaced the Leslie pipe as a target of mining.A 1,096-tonne sample from the Sable pipe returned 1,070.3 carats, for a grade of …

Junior Fairstar Explorations (FFR-M) has begun exploring two of its gold properties in Ghana.At the previously unexplored Abuakwa property, the company is preparing a grid for upcoming soil and ground…

Three additional kimberlitic-textured bodies have been discovered in the Buffalo Hills area of north-central Alberta, bringing the total to five.Partners Ashton Mining of Canada (RCA-T) and Pure Gold …

Vancouver-based Asia Minerals (AMP-A) has signed a letter-of-intent agreement to explore the Aurora property on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.The 88,000-ha land package, which covers seven ex…

The issue of Jan. 27 carried an advertisement that the Argentine government is planning to carry out a multi-parameter airborne survey over a large mineral area there.What upsets me is an item in the …

Encouraging trench results have induced newly listed Seahawk Minerals (SKM-V) to drill the Blackwater Creek gold property in Guyana.The company completed 12 trenches across two structures extending ov…

Consulting firm Behre Dolbear has submitted to the government of Niger its initial recommendations for privatizing the country’s mining industry.From a database of 451 known mineral occurrences, Behre…

An engineering firm has been retained by America Mineral Fields (AMZ-V) to carry out a preliminary feasibility study for the past-producing Kipushi zinc mine in Zaire.London-based Techpro Mining and M…

Toronto-based Caledonia Mining (CAL-T) has released results from the second round of drilling at its Kadola West copper-cobalt prospect in the southern extension of the Zambian copper belt.Six of eigh…

During 1996, Hymex Diamond (HMD-V) produced 21,552 carats of diamonds from its alluvial mining operations in Guinea, West Africa. The diamonds are currently being sold by auction in Antwerp, Belgium.T…