Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A recent private placement by Aurizon Mines (TSE) is expected to provide funds for Aurex Resources (TSE) to expand production at the Cobrex mine and for general working capital. Aurizon is a major sha…

Drilling on the Bouroum gold concession in Burkina Faso, West Africa, is returning some impressive results for Channel Resources (TSE). Assays from the first five holes on the F-12 Extension graded up…

Excitement continues south of the Rio Grande, as companies — large and small, foreign and domestic — compete to lock up that big deal. Meanwhile, some companies have tried working together in their …

“Bigger and better than Raglan.” That sums up the view of First Marathon Securities regarding Diamond Fields Resources’ (TSE) Voisey Bay nickel-copper-cobalt project in Labrador. “There is little doub…

In its first-quarter report, Anvil Range Mining (TSE) states that waste removal work at the Grum deposit on the Faro zinc-lead property in the Yukon is continuing ahead of schedule and below the proje…

A follow-up program of reverse-circulation drilling is assessing the bulk-tonnage potential of gold mineralization on the San Antonio property in Mexico’s Sonora state. Owner Laminco Resources (TSE) r…

What is happening to those nice Canadians? We used to be famous around the world as the kind and gentle nation that knew its place in the bigger scheme of things. And as the media pundits see it, we’v…

Two holes drilled at the Bend massive sulphide deposit in Taylor County, Wisc., have yielded encouraging copper and gold values for partners Sharpe Energy & Resources (VSE) and Freewest Resources (TSE…

Mining fatalities in the U.S. in 1994 fell to a record low of 84, with 44 fatalities in coal mining and 40 deaths in metal/non-metal mining, according to preliminary Mine Safety and Health Administrat…

Copper prices in 1995 should “exceed the all-time high,” says metals trader Rudolf Wolff & Co. in its Winter Copper Outlook for 1995. The president of Rudolf Wolff in North America, Mo Ahmadzadeh, say…

By the end of this decade, Placer Dome (TSE) expects to be producing gold at a rate of 2.5 million oz. per year, and possibly more, assuming the right acquisitions come along. Company President John W…

Members of the Prospectors Club in Nova Scotia voted recently in favor of a name change: the Nova Scotia Prospectors Association. Douglas Boddy of Lower Five Islands was elected president. He is joine…