Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Cieneguita heap-leach gold property in southwestern Chihuahua state is progressing towards production. Operator Glamis Gold (TSE) can earn a 60% interest from Aquiline Resources (VSE) by incurring…

Minor gold values are reported from four holes drilled on the Delta-1 property in Mexico’s Chihuahua state. Bethlehem Resources (TSE), the operator, carried out the 662-metre program. The junior can e…

In August, Similco Mines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton Mining (TSE), resumed production at its open-pit copper mine in southwestern British Columbia. The mine operated throughout September a…

With its first drill hole, New Island Minerals (ASE) has intersected significant gold mineralization at its 26,000-acre Glover Island property in Newfoundland. The hole intersected 0.30 oz. gold per t…

An exploration program is planned by Farallon Resources (VSE) at the Cobre Gigante and Mega Cobre copper concessions in northern Baja, Mexico. Farallon may earn a 70% interest in the concessions from …

During the next five years, Eldorado (TSE) aims to increase its annual gold production to 100,000 oz. by developing several medium-sized operations in Mexico. To make the grade, the mines must have lo…

Nickel giant Inco (TSE) has discovered a high-grade deposit near Thompson, Man. Known as Pipe Deep, the deposit is 20 miles south of Inco’s Thompson processing facilities and 1 mile from the Pipe 2 mi…

A Canadian exploration service group with Mexican professionals trained in Canada and the U.S. has set up the CANAMEX Centre in Hermosillo. There are four general categories of mining support services…

If you can’t take the heat, get out of the mine. Or drive a ventilation shaft. Which is exactly what Coleman miners did in near-record time, without incident and under difficult conditions. “It was ki…

Having just opened an office in Guadalajara, Teck (TSE) seems determined to continue pursuing projects in Mexico. The senior company, through its Mexican subsidiary Minera Teck, has been exploring in …

After four years of declining demand for molybdenum, the outlook for the rest of the 1990s is brighter, with developing economies, particularly in Southeast Asia, likely to show the highest rate of gr…

Aiming for a mid-1995 startup, Geomaque Exploration (TSE) is pushing ahead with predevelopment work at its San Francisco gold project in Sonora state. The work follows the completion of a positive pre…