Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Western markets remained relatively quiet during the holiday-shortened week ended Aug. 4, with the Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index gaining 1.91 points to finish at the 580 level and the resou…

Swannell Minerals Corp. – 2,250,000 shs offered @ 40 cents per sh. Chase Res. Corp. – 1,300,000 units offered @ $2.50 per unit. Stormin Res. Inc. – 1,500,000 shs offered, price to be announced.

BGR Central Net Value $8.55 $5.08 Price $7.50 $4.85 Discount 12.26% 4.50% Value $50,888,000 $81,597,855…

Redwood Resources Inc. (RDW:VSE) has changed its name to Trooper Explorations Ltd. (TPP:VSE) with a consolidation of capital on a 1-new-for-3-old-share basis. The transfer agent is Montreal Trust.

Startup troubles at the Tuina copper mine in northern Chile, which went into operation in March, have been rectified, International Mahogany (TSE) reports. Direct operating costs at the project, which…

The competitive advantage enjoyed by nickel producers of sulphide deposits has eroded in recent years in favor of laterite operations, and a surge in costs in Canada must take a large part of the blam…

When Price Waterhouse talks mining, people listen. For the past 24 years, the firm has summarized the financial results and economic impacts of British Columbia’s mining industry, and its annual repor…

Contrary to what was reported in the July 20 issue of The Northern Miner, Royal Gold (NASDAQ) was never a minority partner in the Cortez joint venture currently exploring the Pipeline gold deposit in …

Shares of White Star Copper Mines (CDN) broke through the $1 mark in active trading on growing speculative interest in the current drilling being carried out by Falconbridge on the company’s small but…

New partners Piedmont Mining (NASDAQ) and Amax Gold (NYSE) recently signed a definitive joint venture agreement for the Haile property near Kershaw, S.C. Amax announced the purchase of a 67.5% interes…

More than US$440,000 has been spent by a unit of Kennecott during the past 18 months on exploration of the lead-zinc-silver Parranda Manto project at Chihuahua, Mex., Kalahari Resources (VSE) reports….

Well known mining engineer Richard (Dick) Murphy, long associated with the Newmont mining organization, has died at the age of 86 following a lengthy illness. A 1927 graduate of Harvard University and…