Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A proposal to merge Gitennes Exploration (ASE) with Kenrich Mining (VSE) and Ambergate Explorations (VSE) would provide the amalgamated company with a broad base of exploration properties in Canada. T…

Having acquired the local mining assets of Westminer Canada in February, 1993, MSV Resources (TSE) now finds itself with excess milling capacity. The 3,000-tonne-per-day mill, situated at Copper Rand …

Toronto-listed partners Placer Dome and TVX Gold are stepping up the pace of activity at the Musselwhite gold property in northwestern Ontario. The project, reported to contain a measured and indicate…

A planned merger between Greenstone Resources (TSE) and Fischer-Watt Gold (NASDAQ) will not proceed. The latter was unable to secure the required lock-up and escrow agreements from its majority shareh…

Haven’t we heard this tuneful little number before? The melody is more than faintly familiar. Even the lyrics have a deja vu quality. We refer, of course, to the latest government budget, specifically…

Toronto-listed Antares Mining & Exploration has identified a new gold zone, known as the Black Cat, at its Lady Lina property in Zimbabwe. The zone was encountered in drill holes on the 180- and 520-m…

A group of researchers at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., is challenging a U.S. report which downplays the human death toll from low-level exposure to asbestos. In the American Journal of In…

Toronto-based Conwest Exploration (TSE) has acquired about 3 million shares of Jascan Resources (TSE), raising to 30% its interest in the Toronto-based junior. The units, representing 16.1% of Jascan’…

The interim report of the Ontario securities regulation task force recommends giving the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) powers to make binding rules. The report also recommends that OSC policy st…

“Promising” best describes results of the first six holes drilled in a recent program on the Lewis Ponds gold and base metal project near Sydney, Australia. Holes 18, 20 and 21 intersected extensive m…

Results from 15 of the first 23 holes drilled on the Fenn-Gibb property, near Matheson, Ont., indicate several types of gold mineralization are present. In several holes, Pangea Goldfields (CDN) has f…

An initial hole on the Buffalo Valley property in Lander Cty., Nev., has returned gold values in several narrow intersections. Fairmile Acquisitions (ASE) drilled the hole to test for deep, porphyry-g…