Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The first 15 holes of an ongoing infill drill program at Minefinders’ (MFL-V) wholly owned Dolores gold-silver project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state continue to enhance the high-grade portion of the res…

Monopros, the Canadian exploration division of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBRS-Q), is drill-testing prospective targets on the Royce diamond claims, 150 km northwest of Yellowknife, N.W.T.A till-sam…

NovaGold Resources (NRI-T) is about to begin infill and confirmation drilling on the Rock Creek gold property, north of Nome, Alaska.The property contains a measured indicated and inferred resource of…

Val d’Or, Que.-based Arena Gold Resources (ARN-M) has signed a preliminary agreement with Italian-based Mining Italiana to acquire a 90% interest the Dompem gold and diamond prospect in Ghana’s Tarkwa…

Aur Resources’ (AUR-T) 2-week-old bid to acquire a 76.5% interest in the Quebrada Blanca open-pit copper mine in Chile came to an abrupt end as one of the mine’s remaining shareholders, Chilean-based …

With gold prices still hovering around US$300 per oz., exploration companies are increasingly seeking other commodities, including platinum group metals (PGM), according to a report published by Halif…

I was bemused to read the opinion by Vivian Danielson entitled “Yukon miners cry ‘foul’ over Tombstone park process” (T.N.M., March 6/00). Perhaps a better title would have been “Crusading Toronto pub…

Rockwell Ventures (RCW-V) has raised the remainder of the $2.2 million needed to begin development at its Pedra Blanca platinum group elements project in Brazil.Financing for the project was raised un…