Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-based Repadre Capital (TSE) is buying a 5% net smelter return royalty and a 6% net profit interest in the Limon-India gold operation in Nicaragua. It will receive the royalties in return for p…

In June, Botswana Diamondfields (VSE) will begin evaluating 60 kimberlite targets on its properties in Botswana. Air percussion drilling will be used to extract core from up to three holes at each sit…

Drilling has encountered gold values on Champion Bear Resources’ (ASE) Swimit Lake prospect near Dryden, Ont. Twenty-six holes were drilled to test the depth extension and lateral continuity of gold m…

Producer Glamis Gold (TSE) posted a 12 cents-per-share profit for the third quarter of fiscal 1994, compared with 1 cents per share in the same period of the previous year. The increase is largely due…

The Ontario Prospectors Assistance Program (OPAP) has provided funding for 215 projects this year. The Ministry of Northern Development and Mines says $2 million was allocated to OPAP for 1994. The mi…

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame has issued its yearly call for nominations, which will lead to the induction of a new group of individuals early in 1995. These future inductees will be honored at a d…

The correct spelling of a company referred to in the March 7 and May 16 editions is International Homestead Resources (VSE), not International Holmstead. The Northern Miner regrets any inconvenience t…

Mousseau Tremblay, Andrew Malim and Norman Baldwin appointed directors.

Glen Naka and Richard Evans appointed directors.

On Feb. 3 of this year, U.S. President Bill Clinton removed the 19-year-old prohibition against American companies doing business in Vietnam. This prohibition had, by moral persuasion, inhibited most …

Why do we believe that investor enthusiasm, which swept South American countries like Venezuela in 1993, will spread to West African countries in 1994? (By West Africa, we are referring primarily to t…

Robert Fennimore appointed director.