Articles by Northern Miner Staff

By drilling outside the area of known mineralization, Gold Reserve (GLR-T) has located three significant finds at its Las Brisas gold deposit in the Kilometre 88 region of Venezuela.The program focuse…

For Vedron Gold (VDGI-M), Ontario’s Timmins gold camp still has the right stuff.At its wholly owned property in Tisdale Twp., the company is carrying out a 50,000-ft., 40-hole program aimed at testing…

Encouraging drill results are reported by Omni Resources (ORI-V) from the first three holes of an expanded program at its Skukum Creek property in the Mount Skukum area of southern Yukon.The 15-hole p…

In what could prove to be Ontario’s last great staking rush, several hundred claimstakers recently converged near Temagami on a piece of northeastern Ontario roughly the size of Prince Edward Island.F…

First Quantum Ventures (FQV-V) has changed its name to First Quantum Minerals (FM-V).

Discovery of a new zone south of the main deposit on the Chevier property near Chibougamau, Que., is expected to boost the project’s resources, reports GeoNova Explorations (GNE-M).Hole 126 intersecte…

I will never forget the day in 1978 when Treavor Hancock, supervisor of British Columbia’s Granduc copper mine, phoned to tell me that the roof of the mill had collapsed under the weight of ice and sn…

Nevada produced an estimated $3.2 billion in minerals (including petroleum and geothermal energy) in 1995, matching the record set in 1994.It produced 6.8 million oz. gold worth $2.6 billion in 1995, …