Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The directors of Echo Bay Mines (TSE) have adopted a shareholders’ rights protection plan, or “poison pill.” The plan can be enacted if any person or group acquires more than 20% of the company’s comm…

Junior Consolidated Ramrod Gold (TSE) has released more results from an ongoing drill program at the Matthews property in the Wenatchee district of eastern Washington state. The company controls prope…

TSE-listed International Gold Resources has completed the first phase of reverse circulation drilling at the past-producing Bibiani mine in Ghana, West Africa. Seventy-four holes, totaling 29,200 ft.,…

Encouraged by results from an exploration program involving both surface and underground work, Redfern Resources (TSE) has accelerated permitting and engineering feasibility studies for its Tulsequah …

Australian mining company Delta Gold and the Zimbabwean government have signed a contract for a new platinum mine that represents the biggest single foreign investment in the country since its indepen…

In return for cash and common stock, Centurion Mines (NASDAQ) has acquired the Grand Central mine and 70% control of Mammoth Mining, thereby securing a prospective land package encompassing about 500 …

Drilling on the Kaburi-Eldorado property in Guyana is continuing to expand the Hicks zone for owner Cathedral Gold (TSE). The best result from the latest five holes (94-21 through 94-25) returned 9.8 …

A submission by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA) maintains that a report on lung cancer in the hardrock mining industry presents no evidence that the disease is caused by current mining exposures….

The takeover battle for gold-producer Lac Minerals (TSE) has come to a satisfactory conclusion for American Barrick Resources (TSE). Barrick acquired more than 80% of Lac’s common shares on a fully di…

Montreal-listed Tiomin Resources has an agreement-in-principle to acquire a private Panamanian company and earn a majority interest in the Cerro Colorado copper deposit in Panama’s Chiriqui province. …

The general state of the Peruvian economy is improving dramatically, with inflation down to below 40% against many hundreds — if not thousands — per cent in the past. The influx of foreign capital i…

Canada’s first overseas diamond producer, Redaurum (TSE), plans to increase annual production at its 50%-owned River Ranch mine in Zimbabwe to more than 400,000 carats. Earlier this year, the company …