Grayd picks up more ground in Nfld.
Vancouver — With an eye on increasing its land position in the Botwood Basin district, Grayd Resource (GYD-V) has…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Southern Rio kicks off exploration in central B.C.
Vancouver — Southern Rio Resources (SNZ-V) has commenced a summer exploration program on its 3Ts project in centra…
Trading Summary (July 08, 2002)
The Toronto Stock Exchange weathered the latest report of creative accounting practices by drug maker Merck & Co. b…
Trans Hex sets sail
Trans Hex Group’s deep-water mining vessel, the Mv Namakwa, is no longer sailing over the Marshall Fork deposit off…
SouthernEra recovers diamonds from Sue pipe
SouthernEra Resources’ (SUF-T) first hole into the Sue kimberlite pipe on the Yamba Lake property in the Northwest…
Shear Minerals, Golconda nab Alaskan diamonds
Edmonton-based Shear Minerals (SRM-V) and partner Golconda Resources (GA-V) report that diamonds have been recovere…
Alcoa rebounds in second quarter
Alcoa (AA-N), the world’s largest aluminum company, turned in a respectable second-quarter earnings report that ref…
Aurizon grabs TVX’s Casa Berardi stake
Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) has acquired TVX Gold’s (TVX-T) residual interest in the Casa Berardi project in northwestern…
Birim cashes up for Ghana drilling
Vancouver — Birim Goldfields (BGI-T) has raised $500,000 through the exercise of 972,652 outstanding warrants at a…
Diamonds North targets Victoria Island (July 08, 2002)
Hoping to capitalize on a revitalized diamond exploration sector that has been fueled by recent kimberlite discoveries in Quebec and the Coronation district of Nunavut, Major General Resources has spu…
Roughing it (with apologies to Mark Twain)
As reviewed in the first article in this series, “Making the Grade: Diamonds Take Forever” (T.N.M., June 17/02), once a favourable bedrock (lode) or surficial (placer) site has been located, the proce…
Correction (July 08, 2002)
Our Venture Exchange market report of June 17 referred to American Bonanza Gold Mining (BZA-V) as “cash-strapped.”Shortly before that issue went to press, the company had completed a public offering o…