Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Assays from a drill program last fall allowed Dakota Mining (TSE) to increase the oxide reserve at its Gilt Edge gold mine near Deadwood, S.D. The proven and probable figure has expanded by 34%, risin…

Boise-based Sunshine Mining (NYSE) has hit a vein of high-grade mineralization in the first hole of a program at its namesake mine in northern Idaho. The galena and tetrahedrite values were intersecte…

The 15th annual Northeast Mines and Minerals Geoscience Symposium will be held in Sudbury, Ont., on April 19 and 20. About 300 delegates are expected to attend the event, the theme of which will be “T…

The Crown says it will appeal the murder conviction of Roger Warren in the 1992 explosion at the Giant gold mine in Yellowknife, N.W.T., that left nine miners dead. Warren was convicted in January on …

China: Emerging Minerals Opportunities, by Metals Economic Group, Box 2206, Halifax, N.S. B3J 3C4. $7,500 (plus GST for Canadian-based companies). The study builds on Metals Economics Group’s 1994 edi…

The Explorationist newsletter of the Ontario Prospectors Association recently castigated our federal politicians for failing to support mining in the federal budget. In particular, the article “Paul M…

A Coleman Township Road Guide to Historic Cobalt Mines, by Peter Fancy. Sponsored by the Temiskaming Abitibi Heritage Association. Available from the Highway Book Shop, Hwy. 11 S, Cobalt, Ont. P0J 1C0…

I must respond to Bryan Lee’s unwarranted attack (“Keep mining in Canada, but at what cost?”, T.N.M., April 3/95) on the Canadian mining industry, in which he states that mining “has not been environm…

A. Ransom appointed president, chief executive officer and director.

James Corrigan appointed president and general manager.

Donald Robson appointed vice-president and chief financial officer.

Jacqueline Beesley and Jeffrey Clevenger elected directors.