Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Denver — The prospect of an interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve held back the Dow Jones industrial average, which sank 124.19 points, or 1.2%, to 10,472.48 for the June 20-26 report period….

The increase in the share price of Metallica Resources (MR-T) to a recent 52-week high of $1.30 (off a year-low of 18) coincides with the release of assay results from a second round of drilling by N…

Vancouver — Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) and its joint-venture partners, Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) and New Zealand-based Zedex, are going for gold in Vietnam, while Falconbridge…

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Denver — Glamis Gold (GLG-N) is half-way through an 80,000-ft. drilling program at the Millennium project in Nevada, where it expects to outline a new resource.Glamis owns a 66.7% interest in Marigol…

Encouraged by results from till sampling in the Otish Mountains area of central Quebec, BHP Diamonds has struck a deal with Majescor Resources (MAJ-V) to earn up to a 56% interest in the Portage prope…

Having acquired 98.2% of Dia Met Minerals’ (DMM-T) Class A subordinate voting shares and 84.9% of its Class B multiple voting, Australia’s BHP (BHP-N) has further extended its $687-million takeover of…

Five holes drilled in the South Break and 180 Splay structures in Lebel and Gauthier twps., near Kirkland Lake, Ont., have intersected long intervals of low-grade gold mineralization.Partners Queensto…

Vancouver — Despite cutting wide zones of copper-silver mineralization in its first round of drilling on the Vicuna gold project in northwestern Argentina, Rio Tinto (RTP-N) has decided to stop explo…

Denver — A coalition of mining companies, power companies and resort casinos has filed suit in the Nevada state Supreme Court, seeking passage of a bill that could affect how large electricity-users …