Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Denver-based Dakota Mining (DKT-T) and mining consulting firm Neil & Associates (NAA) will join forces to explore for gold in northeastern Nevada.The partners will investigate three prior producing go…

With all shares of Diamond Fields Resources (DFR) now in the hands of Inco (N-T), the former’s Voisey Bay Nickel Company subsidiary has become a division of Inco.On Aug. 21, Inco’s acquisition of DFR …

Drilling on the Coleman Canyon property in Nevada, Aur Resources (AUR-T) has hit several thick intersections of low-grade gold mineralization.Since June, Aur has completed 21 reverse-circulation holes…

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…