Articles by Northern Miner Staff

In a recent article in Time magazine on mine reform legislation in the U.S., the industry south of the border (along with the Canadian contingent of companies) was portrayed in a negative light. The r…

Reflecting an improved outlook in the general economy, some base metals appear to be entering a stable period. Mine producers, especially the high-cost ones, are seriously setting about reducing outpu…

A survey suggests Canadians understand problems faced by the Canadian mining industry. The survey, by Decima Research, was commissioned by “Keep Mining in Canada” (KMIC), a group launched in September…

Shareholders of Cyprus Minerals (NYSE) and Amax (NYSE) have voted in favor of a merger. The new corporation is called Cyprus Amax Minerals Co. It becomes the second-largest copper producer in the U.S….

The exploration unit of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE) has optioned a copper property in northern Saskatchewan from Copperquest (CDN). Previous work at the Knife Lake property outlined a zone of m…

Montreal-listed Orex Exploration (ME) has completed a financing agreement which will garner it $400,000. The company, based in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., will issue a million common shares and a million flo…

Four holes have been drilled by Cross Lake Minerals (VSE) on its Sheraton-Timmins polymetallic project near Timmins, Ont. The first two were drilled to test a 1,200-metre-long electromagnetic (EM) con…

Encouraging results are reported from the first 11 holes of a 31-hole delineation program on the Hislop property in northeastern Ontario. Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE), with a 60% interest, is the operator o…

A new exploration company has been created by three Toronto-listed juniors. Muscocho Explorations, McNellen Resources and Flanagan McAdam Resources will transfer their respective interests in the Magi…

Increased production and a higher realized gold price of US$404 per oz. enabled Viceroy Resource (TSE) to post a 92% increase in net earnings for the 6-month period ended Sept. 30, over results achiev…

While working at the Granduc mine at the Portal Camp in British Columbia in the 1960s, I was surrounded by the vast glaciers: Berenden, Frank Mackie, Little Salmon, Chicomen and the Leducs. Upon viewi…

Scientists from the United Kingdom-based research laboratory of Shell have joined forces with Dutch experts to solve the problem of contamination from the site of one of the world’s most efficient zin…