Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Mindoro Resources (MIO-A) has planned a 20-hole, 2,000-metre drilling campaign at the Agata gold project in the Philippines following the discovery of high-grade gold anomaliesDrilling of the Assmicor…

Tony Blair is probably the toniest prime minister Great Britain has ever had. He’s Britain’s answer to Bill Clinton, equally polished and urbane, and equally eager to build that proverbial bridge into…

As the gold mining industry holds its collective breath and peers over the US$250-per-ounce precipice, it is time to ask if the death of a responsible gold mining industry is in your best interest. Us…

Some two months after a US$1.1-billion merger with Getchell Gold, Placer Dome (PDG-T) has stopped production and milling at the problem-plagued Turquoise Ridge gold mine northeast of Winnemucca, in no…

Cambior (CBJ-T) has acquired an option to buy a 40% interest in the Lac Dor vanadium property from privately held McKenzie Bay Resources.Cambior must spend $4 million on a bankable feasibility study o…

Test results from the second half of a 5,986-tonne kimberlite sample collected last winter from the NW dyke, owned by Winspear Resources (WSP-V) at Snap Lake in the Northwest Territories, have proven …

Gold dropped to yet another 20-year low during the quiet report period ended July 20, losing $2.70 to hit US$252.90 per oz. on the London morning fix of July 21.Most of Canada’s major gold producers s…

The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index lost 5.87 points, or 1.37%, closing the week ended July 20 at 423.74. The mining index lost 8.55 points to close at 279.43.The combined value of the Albert…

Junior Orezone Resources (ORZ-M) has received more encouraging results from reverse-circulation drilling at its Kerboul gold property in northern Burkina Faso.Eight holes sunk in the Kerboul South z…