Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Exploration funds for Freegold

A private placement will give International Freegold Mineral Development (VSE) additional funds with which to explore its Golden Summit property near Fairbanks, Alaska. La Teko Resources (NASDAQ) is p…


Zappa drilling Papa Grande play

A minimum 3,500-metre diamond drill program is under way on Zappa Resources’ (VSE) Papa Grande concession in southwestern Ecuador. Anomalous gold soil geochemistry, along with outcrops of mineralized …


IGR options Poura mine

The government of Burkina Faso will allow TSE-listed International Gold Resources (IGR) to acquire a 90% stake in the country’s largest operating gold mine. The Poura mine is the fourth project the co…


Gold intersected at Bralorne

Drilling on the Bralorne mine project in the Bridge River area of southwestern British Columbia has returned gold values for partners Avino Mines & Resources (VSE) and Bralorne-Pioneer Gold Mines (VSE…


Fortune negotiating agreements

Having announced significant assay results from its NICO claim group near Yellowknife, N.W.T., Fortune Minerals (CDN) is entertaining several joint-venture proposals. Last fall, sampling from eight su…


Akiko working to revive Utah’s Tintic mining camp

The numerous old headframes and mine dumps scattered throughout the Eureka area stand as monuments to the rich history of the Tintic mining districts, 70 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah. Through t…


Northern Abitibi acquires Que. options from Kinross

Alberta-listed Northern Abitibi Mining (NAMC) will acquire a portfolio of properties in Quebec from Kinross Gold (TSE). Kinross currently holds these properties under option from Falconbridge (TSE). I…


Diabex cuts two gold intervals

On the Desjardines property in northwestern Quebec, Diabex Resources (ME) has intersected two gold showings with one drill hole. The hole was drilled to test two geophysical anomalies associated with …


ODDS’N’SODS — Preserving Bruce Mines

A mining-tourism project has been under way during the past few years in the town of Bruce Mines in northern Ontario. Other than some small “Indian diggings” at Mamainse and Alexander Henry’s 30-ft. e…


Nevada’s `School of Mines’

An elementary school in Henderson, Nev., is trying to interest students in mining through construction of the “McCaw School of Mines.” Funding, materials and manpower are being donated to the 4,649-sq…



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