Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

Murray Pezim’s flagship, Prime Equities International (VSE), is proposing to spend at least $4 million this year to prove up a gold-rich polymetallic deposit in the Cook Inlet region of southern Alask…

Drilling on the Guadalupe gold property in western Mexico is confirming the potential of the Zapote zone. Northern Crown Mines’ (VSE) recent work has been confined to sections 4950N and 4900N and is e…

A thorough analysis of drill core from the Mesaba copper-nickel orebody in Minnesota indicates a considerable improvement in reserves. Owner Arimetco International (TSE) and a team of state engineers …

In the mid-1960s, the Quebec government created Soquem, a mining exploration outfit. This government-funded enterprise proved remarkably successful in an industry noted for its private enterprise bias…

A recent preliminary agreement among the world’s leading aluminum-producing nations could mark a watershed in the management of commodity markets. The purpose of the agreement, reached in Brussels, wa…