Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A director of Regal Goldfields (CDN) emerged as an active trader of the company’s shares last December, when an exploration program on Regal’s diamond properties was getting under way. According to th…

The newly appointed minister of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada told British Columbia mining executives that his ministry will begin a review of the country’s current regulatory framework for resou…

After two and a half years of doing business with some of the largest mining corporations in Asia, we were excited to finally receive government approval to visit a new, state-run modern surface minin…

An initial 16-hole drilling program is set to start at the Guadalupe property owned by Northern Crown Mines (VSE). Drill footage on the Mexican property will total 6,000 ft. and test about 1,000 ft. o…

At a time of genuine economic crisis, the Bank of Canada is selling off our gold reserves at a dangerously high rate. Notwithstanding the security our formerly enviable gold reserves were able to prov…

A concerns about the potential impact the project would have on water quality in Shoal Lake. According to David Smith, senior planner with MOE’s environmental assessment branch, private sector activit…

Weather permitting, trucks carrying equipment and fuel destined for diamond exploration camps in the northern barrens will begin moving up the winter road that connects the Lupin gold mine to Yellowkn…

Despite the much publicized move of exploration and development dollars to more southern climes, a number of companies are working to bring new mines into production in British Columbia. Originally di…

Mining at the Selbaie copper-zinc-gold-silver property in northwestern Quebec will be shifting solely to open pit with the closure of the underground operations by the end of 1993. Owner of the proper…

A plan that would lead to a resumption of mining in the colliery of the Westray coal mine where 26 men were killed in a May, 1992, methane explosion has been submitted to the Nova Scotia government. E…

Student geologists at the University of Western Ontario are planning a short course on diamond exploration March 5. Two of the speakers are The Russian Academy of Science’s Nikolai Sobolev and Souther…

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