Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Consistent with its efforts to develop bulk-tonnage gold projects in Bolivia, Da Capo Resources (VSE) has acquired a 49% interest in the San Gerardo property.Teck (TSE) is funding drilling under an ag…

Formation Capital (TSE) reports encouraging results from seven holes drilled in late 1995 at its Sunshine project in east-central Idaho.The holes were drilled in the previously untested Sunshine East …

Yamana Resources (TSE) has signed option agreements covering 13,200 hectares in the Chilean mineral belt known as El Indio.The company can acquire four gold exploration properties for US$235,000, paya…

The board of directors at Greenstone Resources (TSE) has adopted a shareholders’ rights plan to encourage what it refers to as the fair treatment of its shareholders in connection with any takeover of…

Charles Henrick was one of the first men to arrive at Red Lake in northwestern Ontario during the gold rush of 1926, though not for the reasons, nor in the way, one might imagine.He was living in Engl…

Mark Hellerstein appointed chairman; Frank Shanley appointed director.

Word of Michael Harcourt’s resignation as premier of British Columbia has generated some mixed feelings within the province’s mining community.It was Harcourt’s New Democratic Party (NDP) government t…

Colin Bird appointed director.

Jack Cockwell and Mary Mogford appointed directors.

Patrick Gerrits appointed director; Peter Bodel appointed vice-chairman of the board and president of El Bravo.

John Brown appointed director.

Stanley MacEachern appointed director.