1996

Vancouver-based Consolidated Eurocan Ventures (KEU-V) will receive the right to a joint venture to develop the Tenke Fungurume copper-cobalt deposit in Shaba province, Zaire.The company will have the …

The two latest drillholes at the Taylor Brook property in northern New Brunswick have intersected sulphide mineralization at the geological projection of the known sulphide zone.Owner Stratabound Mine…

A few years back, The Northern Miner sent a writer to visit mineral projects in Africa. While in one country, attempting to fly to another, the hapless geo-journalist was hauled off to a backroom of t…

Lawrie Reinertson, president and chief executive officer of Rio Algom, has died of a heart attack. He was 51.Mr. Reinertson’s mining career began in 1965 when he joined Noranda as a prospector. Severa…

Trivalence Mining (TMI-V) has received results from the alluvial diamond test runs being conducted at its 1,112-sq.-km Aredor mine concession in Guinea. Recently, over a 2-week period, a total of 3,41…

A 13-year-old boy from Aurora has been named “Junior Miner of Ontario” by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC).Riccardo Dente, a Grade 8 student at Light of Christ Catholic School…

Partners KWG Resources (KWG-T) and Spider Resources (SPQ-A) have released results from five of 11 holes drilled last winter at the Kyle Lake project in northern Ontario.The five holes, drilled as part…

At the Diavik diamond project in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories, Kennecott Canada has processed the remaining six large-diameter drill holes from the A-418 kimberlite pipe in prep…

Canamera Geological has been given the exclusive right to acquire Newhawk Gold Mines’ (NHG-T) 60% interest in the Bruceside-Sulphurets property in British Columbia for $8 million.The property, 37 mile…

Raymond Runcie appointed director.

Drilling at the Gross Rosebel project in Suriname has enabled Cambior (CBJ-T) and Golden Star Resources (GSC-T) to expand reserves.The partners are in the midst of a 35,000-metre drill program aimed a…

Angled drilling under a minor lake on the DIA mineral claims in the Northwest Territories has returned a 130-metre kimberlite intersection.Situated 80 km north of Lac de Gras, the claims comprise 227,…