Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

News March 7, 2005

Messina cuts zinc

In step-out drilling on its Boomerang base metal discovery in Newfoundland, Messina Minerals (MMI-V) has intersected significant massive sulphides….

Photo by John CummingUnderground workers in Newmont Mining's No. 2 shaft (formerly named the Holloway mine) at the Holt-McDermott gold-mining complex in northeastern Ontario.

News March 7, 2005

Newmont to spend $6m in search of Holloway mill feed

The last thing a miner wants during a gold boom is a starving mill. Yet that’s exactly what Newmont Mining (NEM-N) inherited when it bought the Holt-McDermott mine complex in northe…

News March 7, 2005

Better times as UME bites a fiscal bullet

Calgary-based Uruguay Mineral Exploration (UME-V), the sole miner in the South American country whose name it bears, is meeting production targets and starting to reduce costs at th…

At the Jerritt Canyon property in Nevada's Independence Mountain range, from left: Nigel Bain, general manager at Jerritt Canyon; Chris Davie, Queenstake Resources president and CEO; and Ted Wilton, district exploration manager at Jerritt Canyon. In the near background are the surface buildings at the SSX portal, and in the far background, some exhausted open pits.

News March 7, 2005

Production shortfalls, exploration success for Queenstake

Elko, Nev. — During the year and a half following Queenstake Resources‘ (QRL-T) daring, mid-2003 purchase of the Jerritt Canyon gold-mining complex in northeastern Nevada, Presiden…

News March 7, 2005

Tyhee increases Yellowknife resources (March 07, 2005)

Vancouver — Tyhee Development‘s (TDC-V) has added resources from two gold zones at its wholly-owned, 64-sq.-km Yellowknife gold property, situated 90 km north of Yellowknife, N.W.T…

News March 7, 2005

lonore bigger, better

Drilling by Virginia Gold Mines (VIA-T) is expanding gold mineralization at the lonore property in the Opineca reservoir region of Quebec….

News March 7, 2005

Laurentian PhD student wins Ward geoscience award

Michelle DeWolfe, a PhD student specializing in geology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., is the inaugural winner of the Marie-Claire Geoscience Award….

News March 7, 2005