Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A production decision is expected this fall for the Marte gold project owned by Cominco Resources and a subsidiary of Anglo American Corp. The decision will follow the completion of a feasibility stud…

Abitibi Metal Mines, a small, Montreal-listed junior (not to be confused with Abitibi Resources), is very optimistic about mining 500,000 tons of what it calls probable ore, on a 6-claim property nort…

Perhaps being a few thousand miles away from its east-coast stock market counterparts, where jittery investors seem to be behind much of the current volatility, can be advantageous for the Vancouver e…

The largest producer of copper in the United States, Phelps Dodge, reports it is exploring a potentially significant copper deposit near Brisbee, Ariz. The copper mineralization lies north of the aban…

After a 17-year career with Cominco, which ended in frustration four years ago, Dr Ian Mason is excited about doing geology again. He’s onto something, here on the north shore of Lake Athabaska. But i…

What’s bad for the rest of the business community is not always bad for gold. The battered U.S. buck, which took a beating this week following increased worries about the burgeoning U.S. trade deficit…

One of the best holes ever drilled on the Lamaque mine property near Val d’Or, Que, has been completed by Teck Exploration and partner Tundra Gold Mines. Hole T-13833 cut a 62.9-ft section in the No. …

Fifteen holes have been drilled to date at Coastoro Resources’ Garrison Twp. project in northeastern Ontario, President R.A. Pollack reports. Among the better results were hole No 87-24, 0.18 oz gold …

Encouraged by drilling results at the Garrcon gold property in Garrison Twp. in northeastern Ontario, Jonpol Explorations President John Pollack is optimistic a decision will be made to go underground…

We always knew that gold was a good thing. But what finer affirmation of that thinking than the $6.1 billion(US) that two mavericks of Australian and American business are willing to put up in order t…

Alberta-listed Perrex Resources and Yukon Minerals have agreed to allow Perrex to earn an undivided interest in a couple of silver properties in the Yukon. Under the terms of the first agreement Perre…

While trading volumes have generally been excellent this past week, the Montreal Exchange lost ground, with both the market portfolio and the mining and minerals index closing down. Action continues t…