Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Partners Solitario Resources (SLR-T) and Britannia Gold (BGP-V) have completed the first phase of drilling on the Tigre property, 50 km east of Chiclayo in northern Peru.Under an option agreement with…

Montreal-based Acabit Exploration (ACX-M) is preparing to drill its extensive portfolio of prospecting licences on the Solomon Islands.In April, the junior acquired 12 licences on the island group, wh…

Diamond-producer Redaurum (RRK-T) has acquired exclusive prospecting rights to ground adjacent to the producing Orapa diamond mine of De Beers Consolidated Mines in Botswana.The company was granted a …

Vancouver juniors Guyana Gold (GUY-V) and Diagem International Resource (DGM-V) have teamed up to explore and develop several grassroots gold properties in Brazil.The latter has assembled a package of…

Exploration programs are in full swing at properties held by Yamana Resources (YRI-T) in Indonesia, Argentina and Paraguay. Having raised $21 million in a recent road show, the junior is well-position…

While only a handful of North American mining companies are operating mines in the former Soviet Union, many more are exploring the vast territory in search of projects with production potential.”The …

When the Porcupine gold camp, near Timmins, Ont., has to compete with the glamor of the Andes and the mystery of Southeast Asia, it pulls out its secret weapon: gold. Exploration somehow keeps going w…

The political and economic reforms sweeping the African continent continue to attract an increasing number of North American gold exploration companies.The yellow metal has been mined in West Africa f…

Exploration spending by Barrick Gold (ABX-T) increased to US$31.1 million in the first six months of this year, compared with expenditures of US$18.2 million in the first half of 1995.In a bid to incr…