Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Investor interest in diamond exploration in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories continued to fuel trading activity on western markets, despite the somewhat embarrassing disclosure from…

Market speculation surrounding a drilling program on the Moss Lake gold property near Thunder Bay, Ont., prompted Central Crude (TSE) to release assay results prematurely. The 5-hole program, designed…

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s economics committee in Toronto heard an enlightening talk by Robert Adams, who recently returned from the Commonwealth of Independent State…

Construction of a rail line in Venezuela could benefit a Canadian company which has a 40% interest in a limestone quarry along the rail route. International Kengate Ventures (VSE) says its quarry, sit…

Pending approval from its board of directors, Inco (TSE) plans to reopen the high-grade Garson mine in Sudbury, Ont. The giant nickel miner closed the mine in 1986 after a worker was crushed to death …

A recent agreement with Northern Crown Mines (VSE) sets the stage for Teck (TSE) to earn an equity interest in the junior as well as an interest in an epithermal bulk-tonnage gold-silver project in Si…

Encouraged by recent work on the Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold deposit, International Musto Explorations (VSE) anticipates improved project economics for the advanced porphyry deposit in northweste…

According to a study made for Mexico by the Silver Institute of Washington, D.C., last year, world silver consumption is greater than production. If this trend continues, silver prices could rebound, …

Mining accounts for 11% of Peru’s gross domestic product and about 45% of total exports, the country’s minister of mines and energy said at a recent meeting in San Francisco. The industry employs more…

A. Tonken appointed president and chief executive officer.

The 571 unionized employees at Canadian Electrolytic Zinc (CE Zinc) have voted 89% in favor of a new 3-year collective agreement. Under the terms of the new contract, effective Nov. 1, the average wag…

Drilling on Glimmer Resources’ (VSE) Beatty-Hislop property in northeastern Ontario has intersected a new zone of alteration. The new zone is about 300 metres north of the other known mineralized zone…