Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Major companies are giving Argentina’s mineral potential a closer look now that a capitalist revolution has taken root in the South American country. But the first foreign company to begin a major min…

Surface drill programs will be carried out this summer to test previously defined gold and polymetallic targets on the Nizi and Snoball properties in northwestern British Columbia. The program on the …

Active Canadian Gold Mines. Published by Metals Economics Group. P.O. Box 2206, Halifax, N.S. B3J 3C4. 500 pages. US$1,600. Canada’s Non-placer gold output levelled off at five million ounces last yea…

A recent option agreement sets the stage for Kookaburra Gold (VSE) to acquire up to a 65% undivided interest in each of the Chaucha and Fierro Urco copper porphyry projects in Ecuador. The junior sign…

The corporate structure of Imperial Metals (TSE) should become more simple if negotiations are successful to acquire certain limited partnership interests it does not currently own. A German firm rece…

Exploration activity is booming in the Northwest Territories at both the grassroots and advanced project levels, and expenditures this year are expected to easily surpass $35 million, over 27% more do…

The recent official opening of the Black Pine open pit heap leach mine adds yet another low-cost operation to an already impressive portfolio of mines under the control of Pegasus Gold (TSE). Perched …

The Supreme Court of British Columbia did not approve a proposal to amalgamate Canarc Resource (VSE), Suntac Minerals (VSE) and Rembrandt Gold Mines (ASE). Canarc currently holds a 51% interest in Sun…

Today, man is universally condemned as the environmental hooligan. However, nature too can devastate the global balance. For example, the latest phase of sulphur dioxide control is on schedule at the …

A drill hole at Falconbridge Gold’s (TSE) Blanket Mine Complex in Zimbabwe has intersected 2.04 oz. gold per ton, or 0.49 oz. (cut to 0.6 oz.) over an estimated true width of 9.4 ft. Hole WRE-1, one o…

. . . Two rigs are turning near Lac de Gras as the Dia Met/BHP joint venture tests its fifth target and Monopros drills northeast of the discovery. . . . Cheaper than drilling and faster than geochemi…

Junior Societe d’Exploration Miniere Mazarin (ME) is extending its mineral holdings into the asbestos field. The Quebec City-based company, with gold and copper exploration prospects but perhaps best …