Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Nord Resources (NRD-N) has picked up the past-producing Johnson Camp copper mine in southeastern Arizona at a time when the price of the red metal is at a 10-year low.The company issued 1.6 million sh…

London-based Billiton International has expanded its Newfoundland exploration portfolio by inking a deal with Rubicon Minerals (RMX-V) to acquire either the Point Leamington or Lewis Lake properties.O…

At the Wolverine massive sulphide deposit in the Yukon, parters Atna Resources (ATN-T) and Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) are considering alternative metallurgical approaches that would enable them to p…

The following is the first of a 2-part overview of how junior and mid-tier gold mining companies are coping in today’s low-price environment.Not since the gold bubble of the early 1980s has the London…

Zinc and copper minerals are the focus of a drill program under way at the Lady Pond property, near Springdale, Nfld.Canaco Resources (CSE-M) is testing two parallel, 800-metre-long conductors that we…

The NW Snap Lake kimberlite dyke can no longer be said to have the richest per-carat values ever reported in the Northwest Territories. Results from the first half of a 6,000-tonne surface bulk sample…

With an infill drilling campaign nearing completion, Foran Mining (FOM-V) is beginning a program of stepout work in an attempt to boost the tonnage of the McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper-gold deposit.The 13…

In yet another illustration of the rebirth of exploration in central Newfoundland, a drilling program, now under way, could blow a decade’s dust off two base metal deposits that have been inactive sin…

A report, in our June 7 issue, on Major General Resources’ (MGJ-V) Hammerdown gold project contained incorrect information about the size of a recoverable gold resource. The Newfoundland project conta…