Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A diamond trading specialist from London, England, will address the March 9 joint luncheon of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and the Prospectors…

(The following is the second weekly instalment of a 3-part story.) Philip Arnold and Edward Slack told everyone that they had had bad luck and had taken a new river route to reach the diamond fields a…

A feasibility study will be performed on the Venezuelan gold property known as Las Cristinas. Placer Dome (TSE), which owns 70% of the project, approved the US$13-million study. (The remaining interes…

Vancouver-listed Adrian Resources is drilling three properties in Panama, another Latin American nation that’s attracting renewed interest from mining companies because of its geological endowment and…

Substantially increased gold production in 1993 helped Cambior (TSE) record its highest revenue since the company’s inception in 1986. Gold output rose 46% to 518,083 oz. last year and revenue was 50%…

Concern over proposed changes to the U.S. Mining Law lent a tone of apprehensiveness to a major mining conference held recently in this southwestern American city. More than 3,700 delegates attended t…

In what appears to be the final play in its bid for a stake in the Bajo de la Alumbrera project, Metall Mining (TSE) has withdrawn its bid for all the shares of International Musto Explorations (TSE)….

Funds raised by Altai Resources (TSE) through a 100,000-share private placement at $3 per share (T.N.M., Jan. 31/94) will be used for seismic survey work on gas permits in Quebec. Altai has interests …

Armed with more than $8 million from a private placement, Francisco Gold (VSE) is stepping up exploration in Mexico and Venezuela. The placement includes 2.5 million special warrants at $3.33 each. Th…

A $10-million private placement will enable Manhattan Minerals (VSE) to explore and develop three properties in Mexico. Most of the proceeds ($6 million) will be spent on the Moris gold project in the…

The Premier Gold mill is being modified to process 8,000 tonnes of concentrates from the Snip gold mine in northwestern British Columbia. Westmin Resources (TSE) will process a year’s production from …

The Australians did it. American regulators followed suit. And Canadians should do it, too . . . . . . Introduce diamond reporting standards, that is. In the early 1990s, a group of Australian diamond…