Articles by Northern Miner Staff

During the past five years, the Temiskaming Testing Laboratory (TTL) in Cobalt has struggled without success to find a new role for itself and, as of Sept. 1 of this year, will be placed on a care-and…

A 45% increase in gold and gold equivalent production helped TVX Gold (TSE) earn US$10.4 million, or 8 cents per share, in 1992. This compares with $6.4 million or 5 cents per share in 1991. Last year…

Royalties — a cold chill to the producer but gravy to the royalty-holder. It all started in the days when the king owned the land and all that therein lay. And while royal personages have all but van…

Sixteen geologists from Canada, the U.S., Australia and Chile investigated copper and gold deposits of the Tucson-La Caridad-Hermosillo triangle of Arizona and Mexico last February. What follows is a …

“I’m hanging in there, that’s all you can do these days,” says Peter Dimmell, a mineral consultant and spokesman for Newfoundland and Labrador Explorationists (NALE), a group representing miners, pros…

Nickel-producer Falconbridge, which is half-owned by Noranda (TSE) and Trelleborg of Sweden, earned $29 million in 1992, compared with $21 million in 1991. Revenues in 1992 fell to $1.65 billion from …

For the fourth straight year, the Highland Valley Copper mine has been honored as British Columbia’s safest mine. The award was presented during the province’s Mining Week by Mines Minister Anne Edwar…

Recently completed drilling on the Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold project in northwestern Argentina has International Musto Exploration (TSE) confident that reserves and grade will be increased. Min…

Toronto-based junior Exall Resources (TSE) is issuing a private placement of 3.32 million special warrants at $1.50 each to raise a total of $4,980,000. Each special warrant will entitle the holder to…

The proposed swap of assets between Santa Fe Pacific (NYSE) and London-based Hanson PLC (NYSE) is expected to transform the Chimney Creek and Rabbit Creek mines, immediately north of here, into a sing…

Chile’s mines minister recently told a Canadian audience that vast areas of his country, especially in the south, have received little exploration despite many indications of deposits. He predicted th…

The president of the Reform Party of Canada will discuss government cost-cutting at a joint luncheon of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the Canadian Club, March 29, at Toronto…