Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Lawrie Reinertson, president and chief executive officer of Rio Algom, has died of a heart attack. He was 51.Mr. Reinertson’s mining career began in 1965 when he joined Noranda as a prospector. Severa…

Trivalence Mining (TMI-V) has received results from the alluvial diamond test runs being conducted at its 1,112-sq.-km Aredor mine concession in Guinea. Recently, over a 2-week period, a total of 3,41…

A 13-year-old boy from Aurora has been named “Junior Miner of Ontario” by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC).Riccardo Dente, a Grade 8 student at Light of Christ Catholic School…

Partners KWG Resources (KWG-T) and Spider Resources (SPQ-A) have released results from five of 11 holes drilled last winter at the Kyle Lake project in northern Ontario.The five holes, drilled as part…

At the Diavik diamond project in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories, Kennecott Canada has processed the remaining six large-diameter drill holes from the A-418 kimberlite pipe in prep…

A settlement has been reached in a dispute involving Pegasus Gold (PGU-T), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state of Montana and local natives over water quality at the Zortman gold mine …

Canamera Geological has been given the exclusive right to acquire Newhawk Gold Mines’ (NHG-T) 60% interest in the Bruceside-Sulphurets property in British Columbia for $8 million.The property, 37 mile…

Drilling at the Gross Rosebel project in Suriname has enabled Cambior (CBJ-T) and Golden Star Resources (GSC-T) to expand reserves.The partners are in the midst of a 35,000-metre drill program aimed a…

Angled drilling under a minor lake on the DIA mineral claims in the Northwest Territories has returned a 130-metre kimberlite intersection.Situated 80 km north of Lac de Gras, the claims comprise 227,…

The Alaskan Department of Natural Resources has granted USMX (USMX-Q) the exclusive right to explore the Ophir mining district in the west-central region of the state.Historically, placer deposits in …

The first batch of results from this year’s drill program at the Olinghouse gold deposit, 35 miles east of Reno, Nev., surpassed the expectations of owner Alta Gold (ALTA-Q).The results confirm previo…

Second-quarter earnings remained steady for Teck (TEK-T).The company earned $19.7 million (or 20 cents per share) on revenue of $187.4 million, compared with a net income of $18.1 million on $181.7 mi…