Articles by Northern Miner Staff

International Northair Mines (INM-V) continues to produce encouraging results at the Venturina project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.The company is acquiring the project in return for paying US$138,000 …

So common was gold in the ancient Incan empire that garments made of colourful feathers from jungle birds had more status than ones adorned by the yellow metal. Yet only now is Peru experiencing a gol…

Medallion Resources (MDL-V) has entered into an agreement to earn a majority interest in the Gui Gui lead-zinc-silver property in northern Mexico.The property, currently held entirely by Advanced Proj…

A new resource calculation for the Converse gold deposit in Humboldt Cty., Nev., indicates there may be a substantially larger resource than had previously been estimated.Consulting firm Mine Developm…

Toronto-based Santa Cruz Gold (SCG-T) is selling its suspended Lluvia de Oro gold mine in Mexico’s Sonora state.The company is to receive US$120,000 in cash from the unnamed buyer and will remove itse…

High American Gold (HIAM-C) has completed two diamond holes at its Oesteroche property in northwestern Argentina.The holes were sunk near a tourmaline breccia pipe following the recovery of soil and r…

Even as Anglogold (AU-N) digests its recent acquisition of Minorco’s assets, the world’s largest gold producer is looking toward expansion in South America.Anglogold was formed last June through the m…

The government of Cuba has approved a proposal by MacDonald Mines Exploration (MMP-A) to step up its exploration for gold on the island nation.Over the past four years, the company has identified 36 t…

The similarities to Nevada-style sediment-hosted, bulktonnage gold deposits were compelling enough for Aquest Minerals (AQU-V) to acquire a privately-held Guatemalan mining company whose key assets in…

Partners Morgain Minerals (MGM-V) and Columbia Metals (COML-C) are continuing to explore for polymetallic minerals at their San Francisco property in Mexico’s Sonora state.San Francisco produced gold …

Minera Andes (MAI-A) has resumed drilling at the Huevos Verdes vein system on the El Pluma-Cerro Saavedra silver-gold property in southern Argentina.To date, the company has drilled 10 reverse-circula…