Articles by Northern Miner Staff

By acquiring the 2,800-hectare Baramita gold property, Canarc Resource (VSE) can increase substantially its holdings in the Guyana Shield. To do so, it must spend $700,000 exploring the property, situ…

Six senior officers of Golden Star Resources (TSE) were granted options in September. According to the Ontario Securities Commission’s OSC Bulletin, senior officer Carlos Bertoni was granted 25,000 op…

Toronto-listed Jordex Resources has augmented its South American holdings by acquiring, through a wholly owned subsidiary, two concessions in the central Brazilian Shield. The Pontes E Lacerda concess…

Development of the Mariquita copper deposit in northwestern Mexico would see an open-pit, heap-leach, solvent extraction-electrowinning operation, producing about 15,000 tonnes per year of high-purity…

The Tizapa polymetallic project southwest of Mexico City underwent test operations this summer in preparation for commercial production. Owned 54% by Industrias Penoles, 39% by Dowa Mining and 10% by …

The current era has been characterized by the emergence of new nations with a specific set of needs and urgent demands, summarized in the recent call for a new international economic order. One of the…

In the late 1500s, Spanish explorers began finding high-grade polymetallic mineralization in the San Lorenzo mountains in north-central Mexico. More recently, Canadian joint-venture partners William R…

A program of infill drilling is planned this year for the Cuatro Hermanos porphyry copper project in Sonora state, Morgain Minerals (VSE) reports. Cost of the drilling is estimated to be US$3.5 millio…

Toronto-listed International Gold Resources (IGR) has finished an initial exploration program on its Youga gold property in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The work consisted of mapping and geochemical sam…

Preparing La Cienega mine in the northwest of Durango state for underground production this year is the Penoles group. The project’s deposits sit in a 4-km-long system of quartz veins and host gold-si…

Outgoing Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and former Italian trade minister Renato Ruggiero are the favorites to head the new World Trade Organization (WTO), diplomats said recently in Gene…

Halloween was still weeks away, but that did not prevent the ghost of Windy Craggy from stalking the District 6 annual general meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CI…