Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A $600,000 work program for this year at Tintina Mines’ silver property at Watson Lake in the Yukon is under way, the company having recently secured the funding by way of a private placement of flow-…

The Vancouver market has turned a bit more positive. Although gold hasn’t performed too well lately it’s still at a very respectable level. Indeed, the price is well above the cost of production for m…

Chance Mining gained some ground to close at 95 cents . While no deal is expected, Kidd Creek Mines has shown interest in Chance’s Timmins, Ont., area properties. Kidd Creek is currently completing a …

McNellen Resources and Muscocho Explorations report they will jointly finance and install a test- milling facility at their Magino gold property near Wawa, Ont., at a cost of about $5 million. The mov…

Can America Precious Metals says it has completed a first-tier 2,500-ft shallow drill program on the E zone at its Manitou Lakes property in northwestern Ontario. The company says the average depth of…

Gold London Bullion Dealers afternoon (morning) $US per oz. Date July 7 July 6 July 3 July 2 July 1 444.50(444.80) 443.35(443.10) 444.10(443.00) 446.25(447.40) 447.75(445.75) …

Westar Mining has been given Stage 1 approval-in-principle for the proposed Falcon development at its Greenhills coal project in B.C.’s Elk Valley. The announcement was made jointly by Energy, Mines a…

Golden Pacific Resources says it has an agreement in principle with a B.C. company to acquire a 51% interest in a 50-claim block in the Caribou mining division of B.C. It adds it has also purchased th…

While trading on the Alberta Stock Exchange continued to be lacklustre, McSev Exploration was the week’s outstanding issue with 727,200 shares traded. McSev, which remained steady to close at 40 cents…

A production decision could be made within a year on a gold- molybdenum property in northern Nevada, Win-Eldrich Mines President Reuben Brant said at the annual meeting. The Ashdown property, located …

A subsidiary of Asamera Inc. says it will immediately start a preliminary exploration program on what is described as one of the largest single underexplored mineral prospects in the state of Nevada. …

Already a major producer of perlite (a light- weight aggregate with a variety of industrial uses), Vancouver-based Aurun Mines is diversifying into sulphur. The company has joined forces with Equinox …