Articles by Northern Miner Staff

When we entered the current recession seems not to be an issue, but when we started to come out of it is, writes metals analyst Ray Goldie of securities firm Richardson Greenshields: In March 1990, th…

In an age when precious metal producers are struggling with the bottom line, the Campbell mine of Placer Dome (TSE), in the heart of the Red Lake gold camp, is ploughing through tough times with an en…

A private company from Alberta has agreed to raise the financing required to begin advanced exploration on Kenora Prospectors and Miners’ (CDN) gold prospect in northwestern Ontario. In return for an …

Some of the limelight focused on the Lac de Gras diamond play is finding its way back to Kirkland Lake, Ont., home of the first kimberlite discovery in Canada. Since that initial find in 1968, at leas…

First drilling results of a $3-million exploration program undertaken this spring on the polymetallic Lansdowne property in northwestern Ontario indicate promising copper values over significant width…

Subject to environmental permitting, the Thayer Lindsley (TL) project in the Sudbury, Ont., area is expected to be a producer in the near future. Though long known to Falconbridge, it wasn’t until rec…

Save Our North, the grassroots organization that has been spreading like wildfire across northern Ontario, recently launched a national campaign that will solicit support from resource-based communiti…

After consultations with its underwriters, El Condor Resources (VSE) recently increased the size of its proposed financing to $7.2 million from the previously planned $6 million. As a result, the comp…

Texas Star (VSE) has worked out a deal to increase to 25% its interest in a diamond exploration joint venture in Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds state park. Arkansas granted approval to conduct an explor…

Some union workers at the Giant gold mine near Yellowknife, N.W.T., are crossing the picket line to join contract miners and Royal Oak Mines (TSE) staff at the mine operation which is running round-th…

Net proceeds from the sale of its 33% interest in oil producer Poco Petroleums should be about $29 million, Dundee Bancorp (TSE) says. Dundee is a major shareholder in International Corona (TSE), whic…

While the outlook for mining in Quebec this year is bleak, the long-term future of mining exploration in Quebec remains promising, says Michel Bouchard, president of the Association des Prospecteurs d…