Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-based Tri Origin Exploration (TSE) reports that it has completed a surface and downhole geophysical program on its Lewis Ponds base metal property in Australia. Meanwhile, hole TLPD-5, drilled…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US60.00-61.75 cents per lb. (Jul. 30, 1992). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US78-88 cents per lb. (Jun. 11, 1992). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (Jun. 11, 1992). CA…

A recently completed engineering report by Consultant Darryl Drummond recommends Quinto Mining (VSE) evaluate its Lumby property in south-central British Columbia on the basis of its graphite potentia…

The second Geotechnica Cologne 1993 — International Trade Fair and Congress for Geosciences and Technology is set for May 5-8 at Cologne, Germany. More than 500 exhibitors, involved in geoscientific …

Junior companies Yellow Point Mining (VSE) and Riviera Explorations (VSE) have a joint venture agreement with a private Czech company to explore, develop and mine the Kasperske Hory gold deposit about…

A landslide apparently triggered by indiscriminate mining and blasting recently left at least 78 people dead and 44 hurt, according to a UPI story of a Press Trust of India report. The accident occurr…

A recent rare courtesy call by a representative of highly-secretive diamond merchant De Beers to Alberta has the local mining community buzzing, but not much more enlightened about De Beers’ plans for…

California has long been in the vanguard of environmental activism. To get an idea of what kind of restrictions might be placed on any kind of development elsewhere in North America, one had only to l…

Although still not out of the red, Westmin Resources (TSE) is continuing to pare losses stemming from its mining operations in British Columbia. The Vancouver-based company posted a net loss of $2.54 …

Additional assay results were released by Gibraltar Mines (TSE) from its recently completed 25-hole drilling program on the Gibraltar mine property near McLeese Lake, B.C. The drilling program covers …

The secretive Canadian arm of South African diamond giant De Beers stepped into the public forum for the first time in years by recently agreeing to form a joint venture with Aaron Oil (ASE), a Calgar…

Mining companies in Ontario need to have confidence in the price forecasting ability of Ontario Hydro and on the availability of competitively priced electricity. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the util…