Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Preliminary drilling at the Santo Nino gold-silver project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state has returned encouraging results for Cambior (CBJ-T).Five core holes were sunk 200-400 metres apart along a 1.4-k…

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Jan. 11/00 (change from Jan. 4 in brackets):Aluminium768,350(-6,150)…

Agnico-Eagle Mines1Altius Min.1Altoro Gold19Anglogold11Artgallery-live14Ashanti Goldfields3, 11Aurizon Mins6Barrick Gold11…

The Spanish government has granted Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) title to the Escalada exploration concession.Situated in the country’s southwestern region, the 80-sq.-km concession is near the Rio Tinto, C…

Unhappy at the direction Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) is taking to solve its financial woes, four groups of disgruntled shareholders have filed proceedings with the High Court in Ghana for a special sha…

Funds from a US$7-million private placement will enable Chief Consolidated Mining (CFCM-Q) to begin underground drilling and development at the Trixie gold mine in central Utah.The New York-based juni…

Montreal-based Cancor Mines (KCR-T) has acquired from Inco (N-T) a half-interest in the Gemini polymetallic property in northwestern Quebec.Cancor fulfilled the major terms of a 1997 option agreement …

Hoping to repeat the success of their neighbour, Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T) and Southern Africa Minerals (SAF-T) have each acquired a half-interest in a 89.5-sq.-km land package on the eastern side of…

Mining analysts Graeme Currie and Andrew Muir of Canaccord Capital are advising investors to focus on junior exploration companies that have strong management and the funding in place for active, high…

Infill drilling by Seahawk Minerals (SKM-V) continues to cut large emeralds at the Piteiras property in eastern Brazil’s Minas Gerais state.Hole 23 contained several strongly coloured, well-formed cry…