Australian-based resource companies have watched with envy as their North American counterparts raised millions of dollars to acquire and explore mineral projects in every corner of the globe. Now, so…
Surface exploration by Ashanti Goldfields (AHD.U-T) has begun on the Tera gold property in Niger, West Africa.The 1,500-sq.-km property, which hosts a 20-km section of the Terra shear system, is curre…
Toronto-based Barrick Gold (ABX-T) will take over a 50% interest in the Ligneris gold project in northwestern Quebec. The interest is currently held by Placer Dome (PDG-T).Barrick plans to launch a $5…
Less exposed, and therefore less prospected, than its big brothers to the west and south, the Matheson area of northeastern Ontario has, in recent years, proved to be a durable, small-project camp.As …
Drilling by Virginia Gold Mines (VIA-M) is about to test a new gold target at La Grand Sud in the James Bay region of Quebec.Recent surface work identified a shear zone associated with a major contact…
Junior explorer Redbird Gold (RBD.A-A) has set a date for its shareholders to consider the takeover of two Albanian mining companies. In the meantime, the trading of Redbird’s shares has been halted b…
Total area: 48,845 sq. km (about twice the size of New Hampshire) Terrain: rugged mountains in the central and northern part, and lowlands in the southClimate: temperate; cool summers; cold, cloudy, h…
Ongoing chip sampling and geological mapping by Cabo Exploration Ventures (CVE-V) have revealed another gold zone at the San Juan prospect in Cuba.The prospect, several hundres metres southwest of the…
In an effort to make Canada a more attractive place in which to explore and mine, the federal government has rewritten its minerals and mining policy.”Essentially, the old policy was international in …
Australian-based Meekatharra Minerals has postponed a private placement that would have raised several million dollars for exploration and development in Indonesia and paved the way for a Canadian sto…
Your newspaper continues to have poor coverage of exploration and mining activities in Quebec.I have subscribed to The Northern Miner since the early 1980s, and I was not astonished to read the commen…
A trenching program by Santa Cruz Gold (SCG-T) at the Magistral project in Sinaloa state, Mexico, has identified three gold zones there.Sampling of the Dos Amigo zone returned 4 metres grading 1 gram …
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