Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Summer exploration work at the Leeds property near Thetford Mines, Que., delimited a quasi-continuous outcrop zone of dolomite marble that extends for more than one kilometre, Noranda Exploration and …

SME Mining Engineering Handbook, 2nd Edition. Published by Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. P.O. Box 625002, Littleton, Colo. 80162-5002. 2342 pages. US$128.50 (list price) US$97.50 (S…

The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in the U.S. will induct 12 new members Oct. 18 at the Desert Inn and Country Club in Las Vegas, Nev.

A 570-ton shipment of high-grade gold ore from the Siwash North gold deposit owned by Fairfield Minerals (TSE) is on its way to the Horne smelter in Quebec. The shipment is estimated to contain 2,000 …

Mineral exploration has suddenly become affordable in Alberta with the provincial government’s decision to temporarily waive a $10-per-hectare deposit on exploration permits. And a first-ever Minerals…

A recent formal agreement allows a unit of Noranda (TSE) to earn up to a 70% interest in the Drag property about 20 km north of Gold River, B.C. The Vancouver Island prospect covers an area of Paleozo…

Larry Bell will act as interim chairman. N5…

Inco’s (TSE) success with applied research shows the linkage between resource development and the development of high technology in Canada, said Ontario Premier Bob Rae during a ceremony to open a $6-…

Drilling on the Lawyers property owned by Cheni Gold Mines (TSE) has intersected some spectacular high-grade gold and silver values on a newly discovered quartz-chalcedony vein. Results from a recentl…

James Anderson appointed to the Moscow-based International Foundation for Privatization and Foreign Investment. N5…

Stan Wirth appointed president and director; Ernest Fowler and Andrew von Kursell appointed directors. N5…

David Allen appointed president. N5…