Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Few discoveries this past decade have sparked more speculative interest than the Eskay Creek project, a polymetallic deposit on a sub-alpine plateau some 80 km northeast of Stewart, B.C. When it was b…

Citation Gold Corp. (CGQ:VSE) has changed its name to Cogenix Power Corp. with no consolidation of capital.

Shareholders of Adrian Resources (VSE) have approved an agreement to buy all issued and outstanding shares of Panamanian company Georecursos Internacional S.A. As a result, Adrian will hold an indirec…

Fresh from closing a private placement worth $21.4 million, Golden Star Resources (TSE) has signed an agreement to acquire the Yaou-Dorlin gold project in western French Guiana from BHP Minerals Inter…

Vancouver-based junior Consolidated Keld’Or Resources (VSE) has signed an agreement to earn from USA Gold a 50% interest in the El Recio gold deposit in Costa Rica. USA Gold, a private company, recent…

Proceeds of recent private placements will be used by Orvana Minerals (TSE) to fund exploration on projects outside Canada. The junior will raise $3.38 million from one placement to a mutual fund and …

Drilling has begun on X-Cal Resources’ (TSE) Crippen Canyon claims in the Pipeline gold area of Nevada. Three properties — Crippen Canyon, Mill and Goldspar — will be drill-tested in series, X-Cal r…

In an unusually co-operative effort among institutions that are essentially competitors, seven of the world’s major mints — Australia, Austria, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom and th…

When I (B.W. Downing) was given that “golden opportunity” of working in the mountains in 1974, I departed from the east quite quickly to work for geologist Jim McDougall in Vancouver. From time to tim…

The following was submitted by the North Superior Mine Managers Group during the Ontario Mining Association’s Mining Week (May 31 to June 6): We speak for the dedicated men and women at our operations…

Basil Pantages appointed director.

C. Maddin appointed director.