Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-based Campbell Resources (TSE) has agreed to buy the Santa Gertrudis gold mining operation in Mexico’s Sonora state. The vendor is a subsidiary of Phelps Dodge (NYSE) of Phoenix, Ariz., which …

Having completing an initial public offering, earlier this year, to net $900,000, Minto Explorations (VSE) has arranged a further $530,000 in funding. Teck (TSE) and Asarco (NYSE) each bought 190,000 …

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With a Siberian gold tailings project already in the works, Armada Gold (ASE) has enlarged its Russian portfolio by acquiring two hard rock mining ventures. The company has agreed to earn a 49% intere…

With construction already under way, Freewest Resources (TSE) has elected to maintain its 33.86% interest in the Holloway gold project near Matheson, Ont. The project was given the green light in Apri…

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE) has discovered a copper deposit about 1 km southwest of its Grasberg deposit in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The discovery was made at the company’s Lembah Tembaga pros…

A 2-part prefeasibility study has confirmed the viability of Tiomin Resources’ (ME) heavy mineral sands project on Quebec’s North Shore. The first part studied the establishment of a mining and minera…

R. Stewart Jones, P.Eng., A.C.S.M., was tragically killed in a car accident on July 3, in Toquepala, Peru. He was 46. Jones was the chief plant engineer, area engineer and chief mining engineer during…

Drilling on the Kaburi-Eldorado project in Guyana has confirmed the continuation of the Hicks gold zone along strike and to depth. Cathedral Gold (TSE), which can earn up to a 90% interest in the prop…

By acquiring the property known as Las Tortolas-Vacas Heladas, Argentina Gold (VSE) has gained another block of ground in Argentina. The deal includes yearly property payments and spending commitments…

Over the past year or so, we have bashed the provincial government of British Columbia for some of its incredibly knuckleheaded decisions. The decision, last year, to expropriate the Windy Craggy copp…

Royal Oak, based in Vancouver, B.C., owns and operates four Canadian gold mines — the Pamour in Timmins, Ont., the Giant and Colomac in the Northwest Territories and Hope Brook in Newfoundland. In 19…