Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Lac de Gras diamond play, which has so far been dominated by international majors, recently welcomed two of Canada’s leading mining companies. Affiliates Cominco (TSE) and Teck (TSE) have agreed t…

Canada’s rank in terms of exploration for non-ferrous metals has dropped from first to third over the past year, according to a recent study by the Halifax-based Metal Economics Group. Expenditures on…

Mining giant Inco (TSE) will cut its payroll by at least 500 employees through attrition over the next two years, but the company says there will no layoffs from its 9,700-strong primary metals workfo…

This year’s convention of the Alaska Miners Association, Nov. 2-6, will highlight the state’s porphyry gold and the mineral potential of public lands. More than 50 exhibitors will display their goods …

As more and more Canadian companies join the rush for diamonds, the market for their discoveries is looking increasingly vulnerable. A recent flood of gem-quality diamonds from Angola, where an estima…

A production increase planned for later this year was delayed by the owners of the Glenbrook nickel smelter because of current nickel market conditions. The smelter, near Riddle, Ore., is owned 50% ea…

Forestry, mining and tourism are being handed from one government to another. The status quo of Northern Ontario resource-based communities may be eroded through the constitutional negotiations in nat…

Trenching and drilling are expected to get under way on the CNE/Captain group of properties in New Brunswick by year-end, reports property holder Stratabound Minerals (ASE). Teck (TSE) has completed a…

An option agreement covering 41 claims in Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula, about 40 km northwest of Murdochville, has been signed by Soquem with three prospectors. Soquem, the mining exploration arm of the Q…

After seven years of exploration in northeastern Alberta, a private Edmonton-based company, HMS Properties, says it has outlined a large deposit of metallic minerals in a Devonian limestone formation….

Ontario Hydro recently presented Donald Brisbois, manager of Placer Dome’s (TSE) Dona Lake mine, an incentive cheque for over $37,000. Under a Savings by Design Program offered by Hydro, the Dona Lake…

Mining giant General Mining, Metals and Minerals recently agreed to purchase 3.2 million shares of Cheni Gold Mines (TSE) held by BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres) of France. The pur…