Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Diamond producer De Beers of South Africa reported a 42% increase in sales of rough diamonds to US$2.5 million during the first six months of 1993 compared with the same period last year. De Beers sai…

During the past 100 years and more, the mining industry and the organizations which sprang up around it — the provincial associations, the Mining Association of Canada and the Prospectors and Develop…

Lead-zinc producer Curragh (TSE) may be near bankruptcy. The Toronto-based company, under protection from creditors and with no cash, will find out its fate Sept. 20 when unsecured creditors render th…

Semi-monthly reports as of Aug 31, showed 75,759,200 shares of 729 issues compared with 73,606,340 shares of 740 issues on Aug 15. Larger individual positions included: Aber 123,500; Agnico-Eagle 56,9…

With copper mineralization outcropping on surface and a spectacular gossan visible by air, it is easy to see how Kennecott geologists discovered the High Lake deposits with relative ease back in 1955….

About 70 participants, mainly geologists, prospectors and university students, recently attended a 1-day workshop on kimberlite exploration, at the Haileybury School of Mines in Haileybury, Ont. Title…

The story of how diamonds were discovered in Le Tac Twp. in northwestern Quebec includes a large amount of luck and is similar to earlier finds of mineral deposits in the Canadian Shield. So writes Wi…

The age of two Lac de Gras kimberlites has been disclosed by joint-venture partners BHP Minerals Canada and Dia Met Minerals (TSE). The partners were the first to discover potentially economic diamond…

Miners will be marching on Washington, D.C., next month in response to predictions that there will be Congressional mining law activity. The trips are being co-ordinated with the Mineral Resources All…

During the 1990s, control by national governments of mineral resources and operating mines in many Latin America countries will decrease markedly and the percentage owned and controlled by foreign min…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US54.00-54.75 cents per lb. (Sept. 2, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US76-80 cents per lb. (June 10, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (June 11, 199…

Toronto-based major Rio Algom (TSE) and an Exxon Corp. subsidiary have joined forces to advance permitting of a 30-million-ton classic massive sulphide deposit in the north-central U.S. The deposit, n…