Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Basil Pantages and Larry Sookochoff appointed directors; Raj Pandya appointed president.

John Auston elected chairman; Stephen Sopher elected president; Andrew Milligan, Donald Mustard, Roberto Negrao de Lima, Charles Russell, Lou Duarte and William Meyer elected directors.

The American Copper Council (ACC) will hold an intermediate-level hedging seminar on Sept. 10 at Manhattan’s Warwick Hotel in New York, N.Y.Featuring an address by John Gross, vice-president of strate…

The discovery of the fabulous “golden sidewalk” is said to be the most spectacular find of visible, on-surface gold made in the history of Canadian gold mining.Situated at Carr Lake, in northeastern O…

By 1992, I had spent 25 years as a teacher, yet my knowledge of the mining industry was, to say the least, inadequate.Words such as “exploration,” “extraction,” “processing” and “reclamation” were one…

It is disheartening that the New World gold-copper project has been permanently sidelined by an agreement that will see the mine’s owner, Crown Butte Resources, swap the Montana project for federal la…

The federal government of Canada has announced proposed changes to the income-tax treatment of producers of ammonite gemstones.The changes, which were proposed by Natural Resources Minister Anne McCle…

The Grandola joint venture has initiated drilling on the first of four planned holes in a program aimed at testing the central axis of the 3,000-metre-long Porto de Mel gravity anomaly on the Grandola…

Gold Canyon Resources (GCU-V) has resumed trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange, having cleared up the confusion over assay results from its Springpole gold project in northwestern Ontario.Trading w…

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A decline driven into the A-418 pipe at the Diavik diamond project in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories has encountered kimberlite much sooner than anticipated.The 529-metre-long decli…

Juergen Preuss appointed director.