Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Following the purchase of the remaining 60% interest in the Tulsequah Chief property, owner Redfern Resources (TSE) plans to begin a $1.5-million exploration program on the northwestern British Columb…

Vancouver-based Placer Dome (TSE) has dropped out of a plan to earn a 60% stake in the Brookbank gold property from Ontex Resources (ASE), almost nine months after signing a letter of intent. Ontex Vi…

Canada’s prosperity will be seriously undermined unless action is taken to improve the country’s competitive position in mining and other industry sectors, Noranda Chairman Keith Hendrick told delegat…

Copper and zinc producer Bethlehem Resources (TSE) recently received proposals for a merger as well as a takeover from two separate groups. Henry Ewanchuk, president of the company, said Bethlehem rec…

British mining giant RTZ has elected to sell its 51.5% stake in Rio Algom (TSE) for $362.3 million as part of a plan to streamline its North American holdings. In a press release, RTZ said it was sell…

Management and labor have to abandon their traditional adversarial relationship if Canadian mining companies are to survive, says the president of Brunswick Mining and Smelting (TSE), citing his own c…

St Andrew Goldfields (TSE) has intersected some unexpectedly high-grade gold values while drifting in the West zone of its Stock Twp. gold mine near Timmins, Ont. At the company’s recent annual meetin…

When Wood Gundy decided it was going to open its doors to the media more than it had in the past, it picked a tough issue to start off with. Analysts at the usually secretive brokerage firm invited fu…

Prospective joint venture partners are being welcomed by Columbia Gold Mines (VSE) to tour the company’s Spectrum gold project in northwestern British Columbia, and the Tillicum Mountain gold project …

Bruce McDonald has kept a low profile since selling Noramco Mining (TSE) and its portfolio of junior companies to Breakwater Resources (TSE) several years ago. As it turned out, Breakwater had to writ…

A 24-hole, second-phase program completed on Freewest Resources’ (TSE) Benoit gold property northeast of Rouyn, Que., has yielded a preliminary reserve estimate of 3.3 million tons grading 0.076 oz. g…

After signing an exploration agreement with the Tanzania government, Sutton Resources (VSE) announced it is negotiating with a multinational major mining company to work jointly on part or all of its …