Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Tunnelling: Design, Stability and Construction, by B.N. Whittaker and R.C. Frith. Published by The Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Available at IMM North American Publications Center, Old Post Rd….

Institutions can go bankrupt, stocks can go belly-up, currencies can become museum pieces, governments can fall — but gold is gold is gold. There is no way that gold can go bankrupt because gold has …

Geddes Resources (TSE) is making a $30,000 donation to the University of British Columbia to support glaciology research. The grant will allow the Department of Geophysics and Astronomy to finance res…

Partners Cameco and Shore Gold Fund (ASE) have begun a $357,000 surface and underground exploration program at their Jasper gold mine in northern Saskatchewan. The high-grade mine entered production i…

Prospects for peace in the Middle East and concerns about an economic recession combined, analysts said, to depress the price of gold, which at presstime was sitting at US$366 per oz. in London. Gold …

By taking on a joint venture partner, Seine River Resources (VSE) was able to complete the US$5 million acquisition of a California gold project which it hopes to develop into a 500-ton-per-day produc…

Partners Silver Standard Resources (VSE) and Carlin Resources (VSE) recently acquired Pine Bell Mines’ 15% interest in the Owyhee syndicate for $130,000. The syndicate has a 5% net smelter royalty int…

Ned Goodman got off easy as the butt of a recent charity “roast” that might better be described as a tribute to the chairman of Dundee Capital and the driving force behind Corona Corp. for the past ha…

A new gold discovery in the Eskay Creek camp of northwestern British Columbia provided a flurry of excitement, albeit an extremely modest one, on the Vancouver Stock Exchange for the week ended Oct. 1…

Despite its rugged and remote location, the Copper Canyon project in the Galore Creek area of northwestern British Columbia is emerging as one of the more prospective properties being explored by juni…

The University of Toronto will host its annual social night, Nov. 1, at the Earth Science Building. Reception begins at 5 p.m. As part of the festivities, L.E. Seeley, Falconbridge Ltd.’s director of …

It says something about the reputation of Goldman Sachs & Co.’s annual metals and mining seminar that it attracts senior executives from nearly all of the world’s top mining firms. This year an elite …