Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The mood is bullish in the South American mining industry in spite of sagging world mine development and a bleak price outlook, which will continue rampant during 1994 as a result of global economic t…

In line with plans to focus increasingly on West Africa, Mutual Resources (VSE) has acquired an option to earn a 54% stake in the Sewum Tokosea gold concession in Ghana. Mutual initially paid $15,000 …

Montreal-based Bruneau Minerals (ME) has raised $540,000 through two private placements. One placement raised $450,000, of which the company plans to spend $360,000 exploring three properties in Quebe…

Chet Idziszek appointed president and director; Derek Bartlett appointed director.

Stephen Flechner appointed president; Raymond Irwin appointed vice-president, exploration.

Lars Vannman appointed president; Dominique Doucet appointed executive vice-president; Ernest van Tuyll van Serooskerken and Michael Curtis appointed directors.

A. Hillier appointed president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer.

Mauro Coppola appointed director, Bahamas. He will also direct the company in gold exploration and acquisition activities.

One of many highlights of The Northern Miner’s recent tour of Lac de Gras, N.W.T., was a videotaped commentary by John Gurney. The diamond expert was discussing the quality of diamonds being recovered…

Thirty trenches have been completed across the Hicks shear zone on the Kaburi-Eldorado property in Guyana. Cathedral Gold (TSE) is earning up to a 90% interest and reports that, on average, the trench…

FMC Gold (NYSE) has written down the book value of the Beartrack gold project in Idaho. The gold producer recorded a 1993 fourth-quarter charge of about US$60 million, which includes an asset writedow…

Brazil will stop huge development projects in the Amazon basin and turn instead to smaller-scale efforts which are less harmful to the environment, President Itamar Franco announced recently. Franco’s…