Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Highland Valley retains giant status

It is the second-largest copper milling operation in the world (after Chuquicamata in Chile), and recent production figures only verify the ranking. In 1994, Highland Valley Copper milled 43.48 millio…


Kennecott drills Trendline

Drilling is under way on the Trendline property in the Battle Mountain trend of Nevada. A 4-hole, reverse-circulation program conducted by Kennecott is testing geophysical targets to a depth of 500 to…


Expansion plans proposed for Division Mountain

Expansion plans may be in order at the Division Mountain coal project in the Yukon. The drill-indicated, undiluted, minable resource is now estimated at 31.7 million tonnes of Volatile Bituminous “B” …


Canarc, Echo Bay team in Guyana

An alliance with Canarc Resource (TSE) gives Echo Bay Mines (TSE) a call on Canarc’s exploration efforts in Guyana and Suriname. The latter will buy a 3-million-share private placement in Canarc at $2…


Birim extends land holdings

The land holdings of Birim Goldfields (CDN), along the Ashanti gold belt in Ghana, have been extended. The junior has been granted an additional 30 sq. km north of the Dunkwa property. The new acquisi…


Study completed for Rambler

A private Newfoundland-based company, Raymo Processing, has carried out a preliminary feasibility study into construction of a 500-tonne-per-day, indoor, vat leaching plant to process the Rambler mine…



Japanese giant takes shine to Huckleberry

Development of the Huckleberry open-pit copper project in northern British Columbia is getting a helping hand from Mitsubishi Materials. Operator Princeton Mining (TSE) reached an agreement with the J…


Placer makes bid for Musto

For the second time in just over a year, a bid has been launched for the shares of International Musto Explorations (TSE). At stake is a half interest in one of the world’s largest undeveloped gold-co…


Romulus exploring Harmony

Exploration is planned this year for the Harmony (formerly Cinola) gold project on Graham Island, B.C. Romulus Resources (VSE), which is earning a half interest from Misty Mountain Gold (TSE) by spend…


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