Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Logjam Creek property of Regional Resources (TSE), situated along the British Columbia-Yukon border, contains reserves of 330 million tonnes grading 0.095% tungsten and 0.045% molybdenite, not 0.4…

Ongoing work by Arauco Resources (VSE) is enhancing the company’s new gold find in southern Chile. Earlier this month, the junior reported encouraging trenching results from the discovery (T.N.M., Mar…

Investor interest in juniors exploring in Venezuela has, of late, taken a 180-degree turn for the worse. Gone is the euphoria that surrounded the exploration initiative there a year ago. The cause of …

Founded in 1991, Vancouver-based Triton Mining (TSE) is an emerging gold producer in Central America, and also holds several joint-venture exploration projects in South America. Last year in Nicaragua…

Spokane-based Pegasus Gold (TSE) has agreed to a 50-50 joint venture arrangement with Goldbelt Resources (VSE) on the Kazgold tailings project in Kazakhstan. Formerly known as the Leninogorsk project,…

Exploration work at the Paredones Amarillos gold project in Baja California Sur, Mexico, is proceeding at full speed. As of the end of 1994, Echo Bay Mines (TSE) had spent US$3.3 million on the proper…

North American mining companies continued to explore and develop properties throughout Latin America during the past 12 months, their stories overshadowed sometimes by political and economic events su…

Denver-based Echo Bay Mines (TSE) will buy more than 1.5 million shares of Etruscan Enterprises (VSE). The major will pay $4 million for the certificates, priced at $2.60 each, thereby increasing its …

An appellate court in Peru has issued a preliminary ruling in favor of Newmont Gold (NYSE) and Buenaventura (a Peruvian mining company) against France’s Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (B…

If Brazil can stay on the road to reform, mining could well prove instrumental in revitalizing the country’s economy, according to Ulrich Rath, vice-president of Rio Algom (TSE). Speaking at the recen…

The Omai gold mine of Cambior (TSE) and Golden Star Resources (TSE) in Guyana continues to serve the two companies and the South American country well. The project, which entered commercial production…

The refinery of Southern Peru Copper is undergoing expansion to 228,000 from 209,000 tonnes per year. Metal Bulletin says the expansion is part of a commitment on Southern Peru’s part, following its p…