Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Two financings have provided Robex Resources (RBX-M) with a total of $2.7 million, which it will use to explore the Diangount gold property in Mali, West Africa.The junior has a 51% interest in the pr…

You’re the head of a junior company with a major discovery, a world-class find that is making the front page of newspapers (including The Northern Miner). You’ve worked hard at putting together the pr…

Drills are turning at the Durham-McEwen property near Red Lake, Ont., immediately east of the area’s two producing mines.ITL Capital (ICL-V) is earning a half interest from Rupert Resources (RUP-V) on…

Based on the results of a first-phase program, TVI Pacific (TVI-T) is picking up the pace at its fully owned property on Panaon Island in the Philippines.Two surface drill holes at the Anilao Hill pro…

A sampling program at the Piedra Cincelada property in Peru’s Ancash district has returned encouraging results for Ressources Dianor (DOR-M).The Montreal-based junior carried out a preliminary surface…

Canadian production of all nonferrous metals except zinc rose in September 1996 above levels recorded in the same period last year.Production of salt was also higher than the level recorded one year a…

A drilling program has returned encouraging results from the Sultana copper-gold project near the town of Mackay, Idaho, reports operator Cambiex Exploration (CBX-T).A past producer, Sultana was explo…

In an effort to make Canada a more attractive place in which to explore and mine, the federal government has rewritten its minerals and mining policy.”Essentially, the old policy was international in …

Your newspaper continues to have poor coverage of exploration and mining activities in Quebec.I have subscribed to The Northern Miner since the early 1980s, and I was not astonished to read the commen…

A trenching program by Santa Cruz Gold (SCG-T) at the Magistral project in Sinaloa state, Mexico, has identified three gold zones there.Sampling of the Dos Amigo zone returned 4 metres grading 1 gram …

Ontario’s resident geologists program should remain intact, but recording of claims should be centralized in Sudbury, according to a report released by the province’s Ministry of Northern Development …

One of the rewards of being a scientist is knowing that while future research may render a theory obsolete, chances are the researcher’s perceptiveness in arriving at the theory will be forever admire…