Articles by Northern Miner Staff

After almost a quarter century of socialist rule, Tanzania has adopted new policies aimed at attracting foreign investment. An important contribution is anticipated from the restoration of the mineral…

Vancouver-listed Serengeti Diamonds can earn a half interest in a major greenstone belt in western Kenya. The area comprises 200 sq. km. of licences for the exploration and exploitation of gold, as we…

The permitting process to develop an open-pit, heap-leach mine is under way on the Soledad Mountain property in southern California. Owner Golden Queen Mining (TSE) is confident all permits will be co…

Franco-Nevada Mining (TSE) purchased a 5% net profits interest in Rustenberg Platinum’s Pandora platinum property in South Africa from a private company. Incorrect information appeared in our Oct. 24 …

Toronto-listed Da Capo Resources is encouraged by initial drill results from the Amayapampa property in Bolivia. The junior can earn up to a 70% interest in the historic gold mine by paying the owner …

Professional services firm Ernst & Young has released a 150-page book on “Doing Business in China,” which provides an overview of the investment climate, taxation, forms of business organization, and …

Recent drilling by Falconbridge (TSE) has returned encouraging results from the company’s Kidd Creek No. 3 mine near Timmins, Ont. Four new holes, drilled between the 2,380- and 3,000-metre levels, in…

In your story “Metall expanding Akie discovery” (T.N.M., Oct. 24/94), about drilling by Metall Mining at the zinc-lead massive sulphide deposit of Ecstall Mining in northeastern British Columbia, only…

British Columbia’s Science World surpassed its fund-raising goal of $1.5 million for its new “mine games” exhibition, which opened to the public Oct. 22 in Vancouver. The provincial and federal govern…

In Vancouver, one of Canada’s most entrepreneurial companies, Royal Oak Mines, is pulling up stakes and preparing to move its corporate offices across the border to Washington state. British Columbia’…

An international mining company was approached recently by an official from a South American country in which it has operations. “What have you done with your faxes?” the official demanded. “We can no…

Ontario’s acting minister of northern development and mines has been appointed to the portfolio on a full-time basis. Gilles Pouliot assumed his new job in a cabinet shuffle by Premier Bob Rae. Poulio…