The following is an excerpt from Michael Barnes’ new book: Gold in Kirkland Lake, published by General Store Publishing House, and available for $29.95 at www.gsph.com. Contact the author at www.barnes4books.com.
Paul Lamond Smith (b. 1934) died peacefully at home on Jan. 8 in Shubenacadie, N.S.Born in Halifax, Smith studied geology at Mount Allison University. He worked in the mining industry in northern Ontario; Elliot Lake and at Kid Creek Mine in…
Fourteen years ago Shawn Ryan and Cathy Wood were tromping around British Columbia, picking wild mushrooms. They loved the lifestyle, in large part because of its gold rush-style mentality: “You’d hav…
Glenn Robert O’Gorman, a hard rock underground mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the industry, died on Aug. 28 in Montreal. He was 60.
“What happened to me could happen to anybody,” John Felderhof, a former geologist and senior vice-president at Bre-X Minerals, told a small group gathered in a seminar room at the recent Prospectors a…
The Northern Miner’s Mining Persons of the Year for 2009 are Osisko Mining’s president and CEO Sean Roosen, vice-president of corporate development John Burzynski, and executive vice-president and chi…
Golden Dory Resources’ (GDR-V) president and CEO, Kevin Keats, has been a prospector for as long as he can remember. When he was just a toddler growing up in Benton, Nfld., his father, who worked for …
— The following is the full text of an open letter from John Felderhof, former vice-president of exploration with Bre-X Minerals, after his acquittal on four charges of illegal insider trading and fo…
The former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof, has been acquitted of four charges of insider trading and four of misleading disclosure in connection with the 1997 Busang s…
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
$982 million Capital cost of the Victor diamond project…
Three years after the Bre-X scandal and subsequent decline of the mining industry, geologist Ricardo Valls found himself standing at the edge of a subway platform….
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