Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Junior Spirit Lake Explorations (ME) has completed two of three previously announced private placements for a gross amount totaling $300,000. Proceeds will go toward exploring the LaSalle concession i…

The industrial minerals industry in British Columbia will receive promotional help from the provincial government. “British Columbia produces about 20 different industrial minerals and could produce a…

Canadians have made progress but still have a long way to go when it comes to exploiting diamonds, according to two analysts who spoke at the recent Manitoba Mining, Minerals and Petroleum Convention….

A fundamental shortfall of supply over demand will cause the price of gold to rise in 1994 and 1995, according to Goldbook ’93, published by London-based T. Hoare & Co. Echoing this prediction is Rhon…

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Charlie Peterson will soon celebrate his 80th birthday. And while the years may have slowed him down somewhat, nothing has impeded his determination to find another mine in the heart of Ontario’s Red …

Backers of the revolutionary Hydromet copper-production process are planning to build an A$8-million demonstration plant at Port Kembla, Australia. The process reportedly has the potential to extract …

As Ed Horne said three-quarters of a century ago, “all the good geology does not stop at the Ontario boundary.” Bearing in mind the injunction, Arequipa (VSE) is horning its way into Peru along the ex…

The executive body of Wheaton River has not changed as reported in People (T.N.M., Nov. 22/93). The appointments were made to North American Metals, a company in which Wheaton River is a major shareho…

Dundee-Palliser Resources (TSE) will buy an 11.7% interest, representing 17.5 million common shares, in MVP Capital (TSE) for 5 cents per share. A 10% convertible note will be issued for $562,500; the…

Joint-venture partners Western Copper Holdings (TSE) and Thermal Exploration (ASE) produced about 800 lb. of copper cathode during the first month of their pilot-plant project, near this northern comm…

Assays of channel samples from Cathedral Gold’s (VSE) Kaburi-Eldorado project in Guyana have proved interesting. Ten trenches were used to test a 650-metre section of the 1,500-metre-long Hicks shear …