Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Sources close to the Lac de Gras diamond play in the Northwest Territories say BHP Minerals Canada has resumed drilling on the property. They say the senior is testing a 100-acre target from a barge o…

A jade miner has found what he believes is a world record-breaking chunk of the semi-precious stone on a mountain face in southeastern Yukon. Max Rosequist of Portland, Ore., who owns 30% of Yukon Jad…

As Russian myth goes, the region of Yakutia in northeast Siberia is so cold that diamonds and gold slipped from the creator’s hands when he shaped the land. At least that’s how locals explain the rich…

An international court in New York reached a compromise decision recently in a fishing zone dispute between Canada and France off the southern coast of Newfoundland. The court rejected ocean boundary …

Junior Goldbelt Resources (VSE) appears hopeful that its initial agreements providing rights to the Udokan copper project in Russia will be “grandfathered” by the current Russian government. The compa…

The interior and insular affairs committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recently approved legislation to repeal the Mining Law. Under the amended legislation, a new system for acquiring rights…

Six members of the 9-person board of directors of Westar Mining (TSE) of Vancouver resigned recently. The coal miner says the resignations were prompted by exposure to potential personal liability whi…

Copper is the “metal of the 1990s,” says Robert Dengler, chairman and chief executive officer of Dynatec International. Today the average single-family home in North America requires 422 lb. copper, c…

Newly listed San Andreas Resources (VSE) has intersected high-grade lead-zinc values over significant widths at its Prairie Creek mine property about 300 miles west of Yellowknife, N.W.T. Testing dept…

A subsidiary of Placer Dome (TSE) voluntarily stayed a legal action it began in Reno, Nev., against Hanson Natural Resources, doing business as Gold Fields Mining of Denver. The dispute between the tw…

Black Hawk Mining (TSE) is moving to boost its nickel reserves by earning 50% of All-North Resources’ (VSE) interests in a group of four properties in the Kluane area of southwest Yukon. Toronto-based…

Base metal producer Curragh (TSE) is facing charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after officials from the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Board paid a routine visit to the company’s Faro z…