Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Development drilling at La Colorada mine property near Hermosillo, Mexico, is proving successful for owner Eldorado (TSE). The proven and probable mineral resource is now estimated at 12 million tons …

Geophysical and soil geochemical surveys are in progress on the Buchans base metal property in west-central Newfoundland. Current owner Thunderwood Resources (TSE) reports that the property hosted the…

New York-listed Santa Fe Pacific Gold is set to acquire the Bob Creek gold property in Nevada’s Eureka Cty. To do so, it must spend at least US$150,000 on exploration over the next 12 months, and prog…

Nickel giant Inco (TSE) is moving ahead with plans to advance McCreedy East, its largest undeveloped nickel-copper deposit in Ontario’s Sudbury Basin, to the production stage. The first phase of devel…

The DC-3 airplane emerged from the Second World War as a fitting work-horse and as a useful machine for the years of civilian development that followed. Time would see this marvelous craft straddling …

Raymon Mabanta, Celissa Ma, Willy Ramussen and J. Woods appointed directors.

John Mooney appointed vice-president and director; Shirley Mooney appointed director.

For centuries, one of the biggest dangers in mining has stemmed from the potential instability of the openings in which miners work. Often, the collapse of these structures is attributed to a phenomen…

U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has been a vocal critic of the 1872 Mining Law on the grounds that the statute allows mining companies (even foreign ones) to buy government land for a mere US$5 …

Ontario government funding totaling $1.2 million has been awarded to Malette Granite of Iroquois Falls to help establish a granite processing plant and to hire and train employees. A $500,000 term loa…

Lodestar Explorations (LSI:VSE) has changed its name to Precision International Resources (PLO:VSE) on a 1-new-for-5-old-share basis.

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) has named Rowland Fleming as its new president and chief executive officer (CEO). Fleming, 51, becomes the exchange’s 60th president in its 133-year history, succeedin…