Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Expansions at Chinese smelter-refinery operations will increase demand for imported copper in 1996, says a Brook Hunt report.The mining and metal industry consulting firm predicts that China will have…

Junior International FreeGold Mineral Development (VSE) is poised to resume drilling on its Tolovana property near Fairbanks, Alaska.Meanwhile, the latest results from the first round of drilling on t…

At the jointly held JD/OD claim block of Lytton Minerals (TSE) and New Indigo Resources (ASE), large-diameter drilling has recovered about 20 tonnes of material from 11 holes drilled to date.The drill…

Further work on the Reyna property, 30 km southeast of Mazatlan, Mexico, has outlined a geological resource of 33 million tonnes grading 0.5% copper and 0.4 gram gold per tonne.Cambior (TSE) is earnin…

The Peruvian operating unit of Altai Resources (TSE) has acquired a copper-gold porphyry deposit in the southwestern department of Arequipa.The title to three of the five claims has, however, been cla…

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Several senior officers of Inco (TSE), together with other insiders, exercised options and sold company shares during August.According to the Ontario Securities Commission’s OSC Bulletin, Lorne Ames, …

Drilling by Adrian Resources (TSE) is expanding the Petaquilla concession west of Panama City.To date, the company has drilled 77 holes in the Valle Grande deposit, which is estimated to contain more …

The potential for economic diversification in Newfoundland, as made possible by the Voisey Bay nickel-copper-cobalt discovery, will be addressed in a conference, Oct. 25-28 in St. John’s.The event is …

With its dispute over mine profits now settled and asbestos fibres standing tall in Asian markets, Mazarin Mining (TSE) is now free to try its hand at other minerals.It was Canadian Geological Survey …

This area of Sonora state is proving to be a smaller version of Nevada’s Carlin Trend. The San Francisco mine of Geomaque Explorations (TSE), the Lluvia de Oro deposit of Great Lakes Minerals (TSE) an…

I first saw Nels Hansen when he walked out of the bush, near Kirkland Lake, Ont., one cool autumn day in the early 1940s.He wore navy serge trousers, a double-breasted pea jacket, a navy peak cap squa…