Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The junior partners of Kennecott Canada saw their DO-27 (Tli Kwi Cho) kimberlite project downgraded in early August from a development project to one of many exploration-stage projects in the Lac de G…

Management of the Porgera joint venture has started routine recommissioning procedures at the explosives plant at the Papua New Guinean mine site. Placer Dome (TSE), an 18.9% owner of the project, sai…

Armed with a pile of cash from one of Canada’s largest corporate stock offerings, Falconbridge (TSE) can now proceed with two major base metal deposits which should fuel the company’s growth well into…

Nautilus Resources (NUT:VSE) has changed its name to New Leather on a 1-new-for-3-old-share basis.

The Porcupine camp in northern Ontario will eat up the lion’s share of the 1994 exploration budget of Royal Oak Mines (TSE). Of the $6 million that is earmarked for exploration, almost $4 million will…

A deal has been signed whereby Radisson Mining Resources (ME) can earn a 50% interest in Breakwater Resources’ (TSE) O’Brien gold property in Cadillac Twp., Que. Between 1925 and 1956, the mine produc…

A 2-phase, US$30-million expansion program of Inti Raymi, the 88% owned subsidiary of Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE), is under way at the Kori Kollo gold mine in Bolivia. The company reported recently th…

In the 1990s, infrastructure investment in the developing world is projected to exceed US$200 billion annually, almost one-third of total expected fixed investment. In Argentina, the power, telecommun…

The problem with bioleaching of refractory gold ores is that it only works in the Southern Hemisphere — or such is the opinion of a good many Canadian metallurgists who were key to the bioleaching re…

Of all the deserts in the world, the Atacama in northern Chile is the most desolate. Little or no measurable precipitation is recorded annually. There are vast stretches where not a single blade of ve…

A 2-hole, deep-drill program is under way on Beaufield Consolidated Resources’ (VSE) Mainstreet copper-zinc property in Louvicourt Twp., Que., project operator Aur Resources (TSE) reports. The aim of …

A second phase of drilling is expected to begin shortly on World Wide Minerals’ (TSE) Easter project in Nevada. The new program, designed to increase reserves, is a followup to a 21-hole program carri…