Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A state-controlled mining company in India, Hindustan Zinc, has reached an agreement with Australian-based BHP Minerals concerning a joint venture in Rajasthan. Prospecting licence applications have b…

A second hole is being drilled at the Nelligan gold project in the Miquelon area of northwestern Quebec, Orient Resources (ME) reports. Assays from the first hole are awaited. More than 1,000 metres o…

Further drilling and induced-polarization surveys will test a new zone at the Casa Berardi project of Glen Auden Resources (CDN) in northwestern Quebec. The junior says hole 94-14, some 300 metres nor…

Though it ranks as the world’s seventh-largest producer of gold, Brazil has been largely ignored by the current crop of Canadian juniors attempting to gain exposure to South America’s historic mining …

An updated “project description” for the Northwest Territories diamond project managed by BHP Minerals Canada is in the hands of the Environmental Review Panel. The recently created panel is responsib…

Private company Ecum Secum Enterprises of Truro, N.S., is bullish about a silver property in the Bathurst camp of New Brunswick, west of the old Nigadoo base metal-silver-bismuth mine. Worked by previ…

With two drill programs under way and a third set to start in January, Nebex Resources (ASE) is anticipating a busy winter. A 25,000-ft. program is in progress at the main deposit of the Canoe Lake co…

Strategic Industry Investments will lend $6 million to Cliff Resources (TSE) so that it can meet its obligations to Mineral Development. The latter is owned equally by Cliff and Strategic. Also, Cliff…

Potash producers in Saskatchewan are selling 800,000 tonnes of their product to China. The sale by Canpotex, the producers’ offshore sales agency, is the single largest order ever sent to China and wi…

Junior River Gold Mines (TSE) is hoping to have its Eagle River gold project in northeastern Ontario in production by August, 1995. The company is also planning to spin off its Moss Lake project into …

A drill program is under way at several gold prospects in the Beardmore area of northwestern Ontario, Metalore Resources (TSE) reports. One hole on the Watson Lake prospect and four holes at the easte…

Vancouver-based BHP Minerals Canada has completed a third phase of diamond drilling on Southern Africa Minerals’ (ASE) Caber base metals property near Matagami, Que. The first phase tested the contact…