Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Houston, Tex.-based Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE) has offered two million shares of convertible preferred stock at US$50 per share to raise US$100 million. The preferred stock will pay an annual dividen…

Obtaining a permit to build and operate a mine in California was relatively easy for Siskon Gold (NASDAQ). The junior recently obtained approval to construct its San Juan gold mine, only a year after …

Wayne Smith appointed director.

A key figure in the development of geophysical systems, Vaino Ronka, has died. A native of Finland, Ronka studied communications engineering and later geophysics at a university in Helsinki. After gra…

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The “1992 Nuexco Review” presents an overview of global uranium developments: World uranium production (in 1992), which is becoming increasingly well-defined as additional information trickles out of …

The government of British Columbia has officially launched a search-and-destroy mission on all but the most environmentally benign of new mine projects. The lethal instrument is Bill 32, alias the Env…

Earlier this year, juniors without a diamond property or Venezuelan gold concession in their portfolio had as good a shot at stirring market enthusiasm as a company flogging used dishrags. But while f…

Toronto-listed junior St Andrew Goldfields has issued four million special warrants at 80 cents each to raise $3.2 million. Each can be exchanged for one common share. Some of the proceeds will fund d…

The recent drop in copper prices and uncertainty over future prices have prompted Princeton Mining (TSE) to close the Similco open-pit copper mine near Princeton, B.C. The shutdown will take effect Se…

Toronto listed American Barrick has demonstrated a renewed commitment to its Holt-McDermott mine, 50 km north of here, by announcing an $8.7-million shaft-deepening project. The bullish news also send…

Re-activated just over one year ago, Exall Resources (TSE) now has more than 20 employees operating out of its Mexican office, Vice-president of Exploration Peter Holmes told shareholders at the annua…