Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Curragh Resources and its Faro, Yukon, complex are in the midst of switching workhorses. Up until the past few years, the Faro deposit — in terms of draft horses, truly a Clydesdale — had fed the 4-…

The Faro concentrator was initially a 5,000-tonne-per-day operation in the early 1970s. It has since been expanded several times so that today it can process 14,000 tonnes daily, which, says Ken Ball,…

Colin Benner has been immersed in mining all his life. In fact, he was recruited by his prospector father at such an early age that skin tissue assays might yield fairly strong mineralization. Well –…

VIOLA MACMILLAN HITS A HOMER A proposal by Mrs. George A. MacMillan, secretary of the Ontario Prospectors’ and Developers’ Association, to offer tax exemptions to corporations and individuals contribu…

Record production was achieved by Granges (TSE) at its two producing mines during 1992. The company holds a 29% interest in the Trout Lake polymetallic mine near Flin Flon, Man., and operates the Crof…

The historic Hewitt-Van Roi property in the Slocan Mining division in southern British Columbia was recently purchased by Cazador Explorations (VSE), significantly increasing the company’s holdings in…

Wage increases in the Canadian mining, smelting and refining industry were slightly lower in the first eight months of 1991 than they were in all of 1990, according to the Ministry of Energy, Mines an…

An agreement to acquire the 52-sq.-km Sagar-1 property south of Fermont, Que., in the province’s North Shore area has been negotiated by Virginia Gold Mines (ME). The company says an ultramafic comple…

Tournigan Mining Exploration Ltd. (TGN:VSE) has changed its name to International Tournigan Corp. (ITG:VSE) with a consolidation of capital on a 1-new-for-5-old-share basis. The transfer agent is Mont…

The staking of an additional 89 claims on and around the Williams Creek property by partners Western Copper Holdings (VSE) and Thermal Exploration (ASE) brings the companies’ holdings in the area up t…

Amax Gold (TSE) has won an award from the California Mining Association for a comprehensive plan to reclaim the Hayden Hill gold mine in Susanville, Calif. A combined effort involving environmental an…

The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a member nation of the Russian federation, has secured the right to retain 10% of its rough diamond production for independent sale, De Beers Centenary reports. Yakuti…