Articles by Northern Miner Staff

What may be remembered as the summer of discontent gained momentum during the week ended July 10, as employees at Brunswick Mining & Smelting’s Belledune smelter prepared to join their colleagues at T…

A feasibility study regarding the reactivation of the roaster at the old Kerr mill at Virginiatown, Ont., or alternatively the replacement of the roaster with an autoclave pressure- leach system, has …

Toronto-based Tap Capital is continuing with a restructuring plan that will eventually see all of its mining assets sold to focus on its oil and gas businesses. Director Richard Scratch says the compa…

A deal worked out between Pamorex Minerals (TSE) and Giant Yellowknife Mines (TSE) could see the Nighthawk Lake gold deposit 10 miles east of Timmins, Ont., brought into production within two years. P…

Just as Noranda (TSE) puts the finishing touches to a final feasibility study on the Eagle River gold deposit near Mishibishu Lake, Ont., a new zone appears to be opening up. Drilling on an extensive …

Former students, faculty, associates and friends of geophysics at the University of Toronto are invited to attend a reunion Nov. 2-4 marking the sesquicentennial of the discipline’s study at the unive…

Partners Eastmaque Gold Mines (TSE) and Morrison-Knudsen (NYSE) recently agreed to explore and develop the newly acquired Oro Cruz property adjacent to their joint venture gold mining operation in the…

The time is right for Bank of Canada Governor John Crow to ease up on interest rates. Fighting inflation may have been sufficient reason to jack up rates during the past two years. Today, the threat o…

A diamond drill program is under way on the Ski project held by Adrian Resources (VSE) in the Eskay Creek district of northwestern British Columbia. The program is designed to test the extension of th…

As Spirit Lake Explorations (ME) continues to explore a small high grade gold deposit northeast of Wawa, Ont., director William Chymyck has been active in the stock market. According to the Ontario Se…

As two of the country’s biggest gold producers, Corona (TSE) and Placer Dome (TSE), continue battling for control of the high-profile Eskay Creek gold discovery in northwestern British Columbia, the c…

Anglo Canadian Mining (TSE) has had to abandon its first hole short of the intended target at the MWF gold property in Matheson Twp., Ont. Anglo hit a badly fractured zone at depth which threw off the…