Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Privately owned Blue Falcon Mines has signed a deal with Development Trust of Zimbabwe whereby it can earn a 49% interest in 1 to 2 million acres of mineral lands held by the Trust. Blue Falcon Presid…

Synthetic rutile has been produced in bench-scale tests on ilmenite concentrates collected from the Natashquan heavy mineral sands property on Quebec’s north shore. Tiomin Resources (ME) developed the…

Cyprus Climax Metals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cyprus Amax Minerals (NYSE), has acquired 91.5% of a government-owned company which operates a copper mine in Peru. The 20-year-old Cerro Verde mine …

The current interest in South America’s gold potential owes much to the pioneering activities of Golden Star Resources (TSE) at at time when foreign projects were usually discounted by investment anal…

Toronto-listed Wheaton River Minerals has reported a consolidated net income of $1.8 million or 17 cents a share for 1993, compared with a loss of $520,000 or 7 cents a share in 1992. Almost $1 millio…

Free-trade agreements are catching on across Latin America. Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela have been negotiating a trading zone which, once in place, could attract new members such as Peru, Bolivia an…

Long known as one of the world’s leading emerald producers, Colombia is now emerging as a location for renewed gold exploration. This is due to two factors: one is that little of the country has been …

The British Columbia government has awarded a mine development certificate to Prime Resources Group (TSE) for its Eskay Creek gold project 80 air-km north of Stewart. The project was given a full tech…

An increase in exploration in South Australia has prompted that state’s government to commit funds for a further work program. About A$1 million of the A$5-million program will finance airborne geophy…

Partners Onshore Resources and Minorco are continuing their search for base metals on a 650-sq.-km property in central Ireland. The property is on a major structural trend which extends southwestwards…

The poor price of copper has prompted Crew Natural Resources (VSE) to drop its interest in the Red Dog copper-gold project on northern Vancouver Island. The decison was also influenced by BHP Minerals…

An arbitrator has ruled that Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE) is not required to make the first two US$1-million penalty payments to Crown Resources (TSE) under the companies’ Crown Jewel joint-venture agr…