Articles by Northern Miner Staff

operation. Construction was completed seven weeks ahead of schedule and the company says the mill start-up is proceeding smoothly. Management anticipates that the design of the new plant will result i…

Rule Resources for a number of its gold projects in the Val d’Or, Casa Berardi and Mattagami areas of northern Quebec. A total of $1.1 million has been budgeted for the program, which will be funded b…

Results of an airborne survey of the Pickle Lake, Ont., region will be released Oct 14 by the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. They will be released at Toronto, Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, …

Pundata Gold Corp. says it has acquired four claims with proven gold reserves at a prospect located in the southern extension of the Quesnel trough in British Columbia. The company says the claims con…

conditionally approved by The Toronto Stock Exchange: Getty Resources, MFC Mining Finance Corp. and Duration Mines.

Outland Resources says it will further investigate bedrock grades this month at its placer gold operation in Papua New Guinea, where pilot plant operations have now been under way for over a month. Th…

Phoenix Geophysics of Markham, Ont., has obtained a contract for NEDO (New Energy Development Organization) of Japan for a magnetotelluric (MT) survey on the island of Kyushu. The contract, for an est…

active in its history. Participation was taken in a total of 69 wells, resulting in 50 gas wells, six oil wells and 13 dry holes. Most of the wells, a total of 49, were drilled in northeastern Alberta…

Granges Exploration, and Windflower Mining, which continue to report excellent results from drilling on the Revelstoke, B.C., property of Windflower, say three drills are now at work on the property. …

The Northern Miner incorrectly reported Oct 6 that Quill Resources can earn a 49% interest in the Paymaster gold mine property at Timmins, Ont., from Associated Porcupine Mines by funding the first ph…

Oil and gas production revenues were down 49% to $3.5 million, natural gas production was down 42% to 1.1 billion cu ft and crude oil production was off to 25,000 bbl compared with 31,000 bbl for the …

of the Caribou mineral lease in its Keno project in the Mayo mining district of the Yukon Territory. The company has the right to mine a 5-ft-wide vein that was discovered during this summer’s explora…