Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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 …

A continuing drilling program at the Fish Lake property southwest of Williams Lake, B.C., has doubled the width of what is already a huge copper-gold porphyry system. The property is managed by Taseko…

American Barrick Resources (TSE) Chairman Peter Munk recently invested almost $6 million to exercise an option to purchase one million shares of Barrick’s oil refining affiliate Horsham (TSE). Munk al…

More diamond drilling is under consideration for the large-tonnage, low-grade Moss Lake gold deposit of Tandem Resources (ME) and Storimin Exploration (ASE) which is under option to Central Crude (TSE…