Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The battle for Local 598 of the Canadian Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Sudbury, Ont., has been won by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. Local 598, which represents workers at Falconb…

Vancouver-based Canada Tungsten Mining (TSE) has acquired an option to buy and develop the Andacollo copper project in central Chile. Subject to confirmation of technical details during a 15-month eva…

It isn’t often that a company can turn a profit from bulk sampling. But that’s exactly what happened last year when Fairfield Minerals (TSE) extracted 2,030 tons from its Siwash North gold deposit, ne…

For many developing countries in the process of modifying their mining codes, Canada is a model. For many investors, the country is perceived as setting some expensive trends. In addition to ever-risi…

The Polaris-Taku gold project in northwestern British Columbia is expected to remain dormant until a dispute is settled between Canarc Resource (VSE) and the former controlling shareholder of Rembrand…

The Snip gold mine in northwestern British Columbia turned out 31,750 oz. for Prime Resources Group (VSE) in the first six months of this year, a 20% increase from the same 1992 period. The company ho…

Vancouver-listed junior Cross Lake Minerals has added 73 claims to its joint-venture holdings with East West Resource (VSE) in the Casa Berardi area of northern Quebec. These claims cover an extension…

An interactive computer program known as Mineral Wealth is providing young people with a wealth of information this summer at Sudbury, Ont. Ontario’s Mineral Wealth, which runs on a Macintosh computer…

In reading the editorial and letters pages of your Aug. 2 issue, it struck me that it was a pity you did not publish Paul Sarnoff’s article (“Canadian Diamond Stocks Can Be Dangerous to Your Wealth”)….

As part of a move to focus solely on its Casino copper-gold project in the southern Yukon, Pacific Sentinel Gold (VSE) has sold its other property interests to Patriot Resources. Patriot, a private co…

The massacre early in August of about 75 native people in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest is being blamed on illegal miners. News reports say members of a band of Yanomami Indians in northern Brazil were …

I have fond recollections of Ernie Boffa. He was born in northern Italy in 1904 and came to Canada with his parents and three sisters in 1907, settling in Alberta. In 1915, the family was in Fort Will…