Articles by Northern Miner Staff

An agreement to acquire the Pedernalillo tailings project in Zacatecas, Mexico, gives Pan American Minerals (TSE) another potential silver producer. The purchase price was not released, although Presi…

Commodity prices drifted seasonally lower in early summer and helped to pull down the Bank of Nova Scotia’s commodity price index by 2% in July. Gains in the metal-and-mineral and oil-and-gas sub-inde…

TSE-listed Viceroy Resource has sent its exploration team to Argentina to review prospective gold properties in five provinces covering more than 220,000 hectares. The move is in keeping with the comp…

Not unlike the past 18 months, the next 10 years will be a period of significant change and uncertainty for the zinc industry, says Brook Hunt & Associates of England. The research firm, in its study …

A previous owner of Geonics Ltd. has re-acquired the firm. Duncan McNeill, along with a senior management team at Geonics, bought shares of the company from Swedish Geological AB, which is operated by…

Ronald Parker appointed president and chief executive officer.

This is the story of the discovery of what was once — under odd circumstances — considered an important ore deposit. Some might say the spooks were at play; other, more religious folk might surmise …

Peter Steen appointed president and chief executive officer.

Guy Saint-Pierrre appointed director.

Walter Hunt appointed vice-president of operations.

The president of Falconbridge will be the guest speaker at the Sept. 22 luncheon of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. Frank Pickard will speak on “the n…

Researchers at the University of Nevada in Reno are collaborating with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to help track down the state’s abandoned mines. “No one has ever attempted to identify every a…