Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Base metal producer Asarco (NYSE) recently completed its transaction with Grupo Industrial Minera Mexico (Gimmex), combining Mexico Desarrollo Industrial Minero (Medimsa) into a new public company kno…

The mines of “El Real de Minas de Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion de Guadalupe de los Alamos de Catorce,” in the state of San Luis Potosi, were discovered in 1772 and, until they went out of bu…

On display in the Vancouver office of John Brock are several huge tusks of the woolly mammoth, a prehistoric elephant that lumbered across the Yukon until shifting climatic conditions drove it into ex…

Alberta-listed Canadian Mining Resources (ASE) can earn up to a half interest in the Lynx Lake gold property, northeast of La Ronge, Sask. Exploration on the 1,944-hectare property has identified seve…

Vancouver-based junior Formation Capital (VSE) expects to proceed with a prefeasibility study of its Black Pine project in Lemhi Cty., Idaho. Reverse circulation drilling is currently evaluating coppe…

Development work and marketing of the mining automation technologies of Noranda Minerals will be undertaken by Societe des Technologies Appliquees du Saguenay (STAS). Noranda says its agreement with S…

A study on titanium by AME Mineral Economics of Australia indicates that chlorinatable slag will be the glamor TiO2 feedstock for the remainder of the decade. Projected balances show that the existing…

The government of Saskatchewan has unveiled a $10.5-million Training Plan to provide mining jobs in the province. Keith Goulet, minister of associate education, training and employment, signed the pla…

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Drill data are being compiled at the Metates gold-silver property by partners Cambior (TSE) and Corporation Industrial San Luis S.A. in preparation for a mineral inventory estimate. Cambior is earning…