Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Murray Edmund Watts is credited with the discovery of the huge Raglan nickel deposits on the Cape Smith belt in the northern Ungava region of Quebec; with the location of the Asbestos Hill asbestos de…

Assay results from recent drilling on Gamsan Resources’ (ASE) Brabant Lake property in northern Saskatchewan have confirmed the presence of a lens of high-grade polymetallic mineralization. Gamsan’s 1…

Jules Timmins’ finest hour, and his claim to mining fame, occurred when he brought into being the iron ore fields of northern Quebec and Labrador, in one of the greatest projects in Canadian mining hi…

With its Anoki gold project in the feasibility stage and underground exploration under way at the Kirkland West property near Kirkland Lake, Ont., Queenston Gold Mines (TSE) is hoping to become a gold…

U.S. Gold Corp. of Denver, Colo., reports net income for the 3-month period ended Sept 30 of $352,000 (US) or 1 per share on revenue of $1.9 million. For the same period a year earlier the company re…

La Fosse Platinum (TSE) has made an offer to purchase up to a 60% interest in Louvicourt Gold Mines (COATS). La Fosse is offering one of its shares for every four common shares of Louvicourt. The offe…

Pierre Beauchemin was a towering figure on the mining horizons of the province of Quebec. He was the founder of one of this country’s leading mining organizations, the Sullivan Group of companies. Of …

With assay results in for the first ten holes of a major delineation drill program, United Lincoln Resources Inc. (VSE) is reporting an increase in gold grades at the open, southern end of the MBX dis…

A couple of former executives in LAC Minerals’ (TSE) exploration wing have agreed to lend their expertise to a new mining group. When the assets of Alberta-listed companies Perrex Resources (ASE), Alb…

Photo by George Onuska Bill James, right, president of Falconbridge Ltd. and the keynote speaker at the recent inaugural dinner for the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, points out to fellow head-table gu…

This country’s mine-finders and mine-makers are recognized internationally as the best — everywhere but right here at home. For the average Canadian, we suggest, remains quite unaware of the very sig…

A lawyer by profession, James Y. Murdoch, who became first president of the fledgling Noranda Mines in 1922, at the age of 32, was one of the greatest builders Canada ever produced, not just a mine-…