Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Residents of the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have filed a class action suit in the U.S. against London-based Rio Tinto (RTP-N), alleging that the mining giant commited “ecocide” and “cr…

The environmental impact of mine openings and closures will be a key theme of the sixth international symposium on Arctic mining, to be held in Nuuk, Greenland, from May 28-31, 2001.The event will als…

Interest rate fears, coupled with weakness in the technology sector, pulled the Toronto Stock Exchange down over the report period Sept. 20-26. The TSE 300 composite index fell 435.93 points, to 10,47…

The Dow Jones industrial average continued its losing ways, slipping 157.97 points, or 1.5%, during the report period ended Sept. 26 to close at 10,631.32.The market is bracing itself for a rocky earn…

PolyMet Mining (POM-V) has dissolved its joint-venture agreement affecting the NorthMet polymetallic project in northeastern Minnesota with Rio Tinto (RTP-N), after the London-based major proved unwil…

Silver Standard (SSO-V) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the Shafter property in Texas.The junior will acquire 91.64 million shares (representing a 91.8% interest) of Silver Assets (cilv-o) f…

Rock and soil geochemical surveys by Miramar Mining (MAE-T) and Hope Bay Gold (HGC-T) show indications of additional gold mineralization about 3 km south of the Boston gold deposit in Nunavut.The geoc…

Nickel producer Falconbridge, now in the eighth week of a strike at its operations in Sudbury, Ont., has declared force majeure on contracted shipments of cobalt to consumers.The declaration, which is…

Ongoing drilling at the Dairi zinc-lead project in North Sumatra, Indonesia, is returning encouraging results for International Annax Ventures (IAX-V).The most recent hole intersected 36 metres of mas…

Aurora Platinum (ARP-V), formerly known as Golden Sitka Resources, plans to kick off a 14-hole diamond drilling program on its Midrim platinum-palladium property, 25 km east of the northern end of Lak…

Earlier this year, Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) described its proposed merger with Gold Fields (GOLD-Q) as a process similar to getting married. All seemed to be going well until the South African gove…

Results from the first four drill holes of a planned 70-hole reverse-circulation program on the highly touted Luicho gold prospect in southern Peru fell well short of market expectations for Pacific R…