News




Staff Investment Policy (August 27, 2001)

The Northern Miner does not permit any editorial employee to file stories about companies in which the writer owns shares. Editorial employees are also not permitted to take part in initial public off…


Geological consultants Richard Roy and Antoine Fournier (left to right), analyst Jacques Wortman, Dallas Davis of Twin Mining, and analyst Glen Brown examine core from Cargo I.

Twin Mining tests boart-free kimberlite

Jackson Inlet, Nunavut — Canada’s High Arctic was a favoured destination for diamond exploration long before important discoveries were made in the southerly Lac de Gras region. Cominco (CLT-T) and D…


Barytex eyes Mantua (August 27, 2001)

Vancouver-based International Barytex Resources (IBX-V) is seeking funding for a bankable feasibility study of the Mantua copper project, 230 km west of Havana, Cuba.A technical study by Hatch Associa…


New era for Canada’s North Roads to resources

It has been talked about for decades, but until recently, plans to build a road connecting a mineral-rich portion of Canada’s North to a port on the Arctic coast haven’t left the drawing board. That m…


PEOPLE (August 27, 2001)

Black Bull — George Cooper appointed director.Candor — Terrence Fisher appointed chairman; Paul Chamois appointed president and director; Patrick Reid appointed secretary and director.Elkhorn Gol…


Silver Standard hits high-grade silver

Vancouver — Junior Silver Standard Resources has cut a thick sequence of silver mineralization at its wholly owned Bowdens deposit in New South Wales, 200 km northwest of Sydney.The high-grade inters…


Alan Coope

Alan Coope, founder of the Ottawa-based Association of Exploration Geochemists and former director of geochemistry for Newmont Mining, has died. He was 66.Coope received his doctorate degree in applie…


New zone at Campbell Red Lake

Already a highly profitable and important young gold producer, Dome-directed Campbell Red Lake Mines has been opening up an entirely new type of deposit that could well establish it as one of the rank…


Canadian Arrow has quite a history

I searched the Internet for information about shares in a mine called Golden Arrow Mines Limited. My father lived in New York when he was a kid. He got some shares in this company from his mother befo…


By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. To learn more, click more information

Dear user, please be aware that we use cookies to help users navigate our website content and to help us understand how we can improve the user experience. If you have ideas for how we can improve our services, we’d love to hear from you. Click here to email us. By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. Please see our Privacy & Cookie Usage Policy to learn more.

Close