Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-listed Davidson Tisdale can buy a 50% interest in the Davidson Tisdale and Beaumont properties near Timmins, Ont. Davidson, which already owns half the properties, can buy the additional inter…

Montreal-listed Explorations Abior can earn a 50% interest in an 18-claim diamond property in the Desmaraisville area of northwestern Quebec, near Le Tac Twp. The deal is part of an option agreement w…

Drilling at the Verneuil Twp. gold property of Golden Tag Resources (VSE) and Consolidated Gold Hawk Resources (ASE) in northwestern Quebec intersected the shear zone in almost every hole targeted in …

CDN-listed Hol-Lac Gold Mines is negotiating with a private company on the Isle of Man for $500,000 to finance sampling and drilling at its wholly owned Carissa mine in Wyoming. Carissa, the biggest g…

Saskatchewan-based junior Claude Resources (TSE) has filed for bankruptcy to restructure debts owed to several major creditors. The largest creditor, Western Canadian Shopping Centres, which is owed $…

At least one Canadian mining company could be affected by the outcome of a petition, filed in the Supreme Court of Venezuela, which challenges the authority of a state holding company to assign minera…

A couple of shareholders of Newmont Mining (NYSE) are reducing to minority status their combined holding in the Denver-based company. General Oriental Investments and RIT Capital Partners Group (both …

With virtually no significant mining history yet a geological setting similar to that which hosts most of the major copper and precious metal deposits in Northern Chile, Argentina is being touted as S…

Privately owned Canyon Mineral has granted Northfield Minerals (ASE) an option to explore and develop the Chuckwalla gold claims, 25 miles west of Blythe in Riverside Cty., Calif. In return, Canyon re…

A letter of intent gives Kookaburra Gold (VSE) the right to earn a 60% interest in the San Jose copper prospect in the Atacama desert region of southern Peru. Kookaburra can earn the interest from Pan…

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