Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Construction of a rail line in Venezuela could benefit a Canadian company which has a 40% interest in a limestone quarry along the rail route. International Kengate Ventures (VSE) says its quarry, sit…

Pending approval from its board of directors, Inco (TSE) plans to reopen the high-grade Garson mine in Sudbury, Ont. The giant nickel miner closed the mine in 1986 after a worker was crushed to death …

A recent agreement with Northern Crown Mines (VSE) sets the stage for Teck (TSE) to earn an equity interest in the junior as well as an interest in an epithermal bulk-tonnage gold-silver project in Si…

Encouraged by recent work on the Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold deposit, International Musto Explorations (VSE) anticipates improved project economics for the advanced porphyry deposit in northweste…

According to a study made for Mexico by the Silver Institute of Washington, D.C., last year, world silver consumption is greater than production. If this trend continues, silver prices could rebound, …

Mining accounts for 11% of Peru’s gross domestic product and about 45% of total exports, the country’s minister of mines and energy said at a recent meeting in San Francisco. The industry employs more…

A. Tonken appointed president and chief executive officer.

The 571 unionized employees at Canadian Electrolytic Zinc (CE Zinc) have voted 89% in favor of a new 3-year collective agreement. Under the terms of the new contract, effective Nov. 1, the average wag…

Drilling on Glimmer Resources’ (VSE) Beatty-Hislop property in northeastern Ontario has intersected a new zone of alteration. The new zone is about 300 metres north of the other known mineralized zone…

The recent purchase of an option on a further 7.5% interest in Taysan Copper, a Philippine company, gives Chase Resources (VSE) control over 67.4% of the Taysan project. On assignment of the 7.5% inte…

A streamlined environmental assessment process, reduced taxes and the elimination of some fees are among measures Newfoundland and Labrador is taking to revitalize its ailing mineral industry. Mines a…

Full-scale gold production is being planned for next summer at the La Colorada project near Hermosillo, Mexico, held by private company Eldorado and a unit of Campbell Resources (TSE). Eldorado, which…