Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Producer Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) has started drilling on the Sagar-III property in the Labrador Trough region of northeastern Quebec. The company hopes to identify the source of gold- and uranium-rich …

The chief executive officer of Deak Resources, Alex Perron, received a gift from Nova Scotia at the recent PDAC convention in Toronto. The gift is a hand-painted 18-inch china plate edged with 24-cara…

Recent drilling has left San Fernando Mining (VSE) confident that it can prove up a significant gold-silver-copper deposit on its La Fortuna mine project in Mexico. The road-accessible property is in …

An agreement with Metall Mining (TSE) provides Norman Keevil and his family with a strategy to prevent voting shares of Teck (TSE), of which he is president, from being acquired by any unfriendly shar…

Toronto-listed partners Aurizon Mines and Louvem Mines have almost doubled the diluted geological reserves at their Beaufor project near Val d’Or, Que. The figure has increased to 626,700 tonnes avera…

Pacific Northern Ventures (PNV:VSE) has changed its name to Pacific International Hardwoods on a share-for-share basis.

In a share swap, Utah-based Royal Minerals (NASDAQ) plans to acquire the outstanding shares of privately owned Montana Reserves. Existing shareholders of Royal Minerals will end up owning about 18% of…

Five months after operations resumed, the Oracle Ridge copper mine in southwestern Arizona is reported to be running smoothly. Seventy-per-cent owner Southern Copper (VSE) placed the underground mine …

Based on work to date, the Marudi Mountain property in southern Guyana has a drill-indicated and possible resource of about 9.6 million tons grading 0.07 oz. gold. Sutton Resources (VSE) says most of …

Permit applications will be submitted early this year for an open-pit, heap-leaching operation at the McDonald gold property in the northwestern corner of Montana. This decision is based on a positive…

Partners Athena Gold (VSE) and Pegasus Gold (TSE) have agreed to a 45-day extension to negotiate the future of their Talapoosa joint venture in northwestern Nevada. Pegasus can earn up to a 70% intere…

Today Kolmanskop is a dusty, windswept ghost town on Namibia’s southern coast, but 85 years ago it was the scene of one of Africa’s largest diamond rushes. In 1908, Zacharias Lewala, an ex-laborer fro…