Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Timmins prospector John Larche was in Toronto recently while travelling to Florida to recuperate from an Aug. 7 plane crash near High Level, Alta. Harris Hanson of Kirkland Lake, a close friend and pa…

Shareholders of Soocana Explorations (ASE) approved a 2-for-1-share split, the company says. Soocana is planning a rights offering, subject to regulatory approval, designed to raise finds for an explo…

The Rat Portage First Nation near Kenora, Ont., recently took over management of its sand and gravel resources after signing a 5-year agreement with the federal government. The Indian band established…

Drilling at the Point Lake diamond exploration project in the Northwest Territories intersected host-rock kimberlite from 140 metres to 280 metres (the end of the hole), joint venture partners BHP-Uta…

Since taking on the Lockwood project 30 miles from Seattle, Wash., a unit of Kennecott has drilled six holes on the Hole 8 zone discovery with all of the holes intersecting polymetallic massive sulphi…

North Slope Minerals Inc – 1,250,000 shs offered @ 25 per sh. Founder Resources Inc – 910,000 units consisting of 1 sh and 1/2 wt offered @ 45 cents per unit. Toltec Resources Ltd – 1,000,000 units co…

With this year’s 9-hole drilling program on the Fish Lake deposit near Williams Lake, B.C., complete, Taseko Mines (VSE) is searching for a buyer. Taseko is the operator of the project under a 3-year …

Wheaton River Minerals (TSE) is negotiating to sell a portion of its wholly owned Mount Skukum gold project as a way of raising the $4.5 million needed to bring the Yukon project into production. As W…

The Brewery Creek gold project near Dawson, Yukon, is now reported to contain preliminary reserves in nine shallow deposits totalling about 16.5 million tons (diluted) at an average grade of 0.054 oz….

Pierre Lassonde will be the speaker at a luncheon hosted by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Nov. 21, at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. With the aid of slides, he will talk abo…

If metals create the skeleton of an industrialized society, then non-metallic minerals form the flesh. Commonplace as they seem, industrial minerals enter practically every phase of life. They are the…

Falling metal and mineral prices contributed to a decline in the commodity price index of Scotiabank in September of 0.7% from August. The all-items index is at its lowest level since May, 1987. Both …