Partners find more veins
Partners Eastmain Resources (ER-T) and Quebec government-owned Soquem have discovered six parallel gold-bearing quartz-tourmaline veins during stripping and drilling at their Clearwater property in no…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Fort Knox follows up hot values
Fort Knox Gold Resources (FNX-T) is carrying out an induced-polarization survey over the McBratney Lake platinum-palladium property, 7 km east of Flin Flon, Man.In September, Fort Knox acquired an opt…
PEOPLE (December 25, 2000)
Alcan — John Evans appointed non-executive chairman and director; Jacques Bougie, W.R.C. Blundell, Martin Ebner, Travis Engen, Rupert Gasser, Willi Kerth, J.E. Newall, Peter Pearse, Guy Saint-Pierre,…
MES forum tackles trends
Recent trends in the mining industry will be discussed at the 12th symposium of the Mineral Economic Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining Metallurgy and Petroleum.The Jan. 22 event, to be held …
Ducks in iron suits
When I was a green geological sprout I got fouled up by some dastardly person who had salted a gold property.I will always remember the feeling of great disappointment — followed by rage — when I le…
The d(2) aftermath
It has been 20 years since the passage of Jimmy Carter’s Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), which placed more than 104 million acres into various protected designations against …
Correction (December 25, 2000)
In an article about the first gold pour at the Morila mine in Mali (T.N.M., Nov. 27-Dec. 3/00), the name of the operation was incorrectly spelled in the headline. Also, the operator, Randgold Resource…
Caribgold picks up land near Perseverance
CaribGold Resources (CG-T) has acquired a 100% interest in 118 contiguous mineral claims about 6 km west of Noranda’s (NOR-T) Perseverance zinc-copper project in the Matagami camp of northern Quebec.C…
Raymor, McGill team up for lithium project
Quebec City-based Raymor Industries (RAR-V) is collaborating with researchers from McGill University on a project designed to achieve commercial production of lithium metal from the mineral spodumene….
NAME CHANGES (December 25, 2000)
Duran Gold Corp. (DRN-V) has changed its name to Duran Ventures Inc. (DRV-V) on a 1-new-for-2-old-share basis.Nickelodeon Minerals Inc. (NKM-V) has changed its name to Strongbow Res…
Majors finance base metal revival in Newfoundland
Vancouver — As Inco (N-T) patiently awaits a resolution to the frustrating development dispute that has stalled its Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt project in Labrador, other companies are stepping…
Keith Minty named ‘Mining Man of the Year’
Few mines have endured a rockier road to production than Lac des les, Canada’s only primary platinum group metals (PGMs) mine. It is no understatement to say that many viewed its construction as the …