Articles by Northern Miner Staff

New York-listed Hecla Mining is planning a 40,000-ft. drill program on the Grouse Creek gold mine project in Idaho. The $1-million program will be aimed at finding additional high-grade, underground r…

Stealth Ventures (SVA:VSE) has changed its name to Annova International Holdings on a share-for-share basis.

Five holes have continued to instersect a gold-bearing stockwork system at Ican Minerals’ (TSE) Almaden mine project in Idaho. Holes SW-4 and 5, drilled west of the discovery holes, intersected the sa…

Full operations at the Heath Steele base metal deposit, near Bathurst, N.B., are scheduled to resume later this fall, reports owner Brunswick Mining and Smelting (TSE). The decision to reopen is large…

Mining consulting firm Behre Dolbear & Co. of Denver, Colo., has formed a joint venture with a group of Chilean investors headed by Ing. Jorge Lopez Bain. The new company, Behre Dolbear Chile, will be…

A conference aimed at improving the working relationship among aboriginal people, the mining sector, the government and schools is planned for June 21-22 in Thunder Bay, Ont. Organizers are hoping the…

John Pearson appointed director of investor relations.

A proposed restructuring of Central Crude (TSE) would see the junior renamed as River Gold Mines. River Gold, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Quebec Mines (TSE), has a 60% interest in the Eagle R…

Fifty years ago, in April, 1944, I and two other third-year mining engineering students, C.E. (Red) Anderson and A.E. (Moose) Manifold, flew from Edmonton, Alta., to Yellowknife, N.W.T., for summer ge…

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Montreal Exchange (ME) are reducing the maximum fee charged to members for trading securities. The fee will be reduced to $100 from $1,000 per transaction, eff…

A former professor and consulting geologist who was active in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, Stanley Holmes died recently in Toronto. He was 68. A native of Montreal, he had degrees from McGill and Corn…

New York-listed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE) is expanding the overall copper-gold resource on its holdings in Irian Jaya province, Indonesia. The province constitutes the western part of the …