Articles by Northern Miner Staff

More than 6,500 delegates from throughout the world descended on Toronto in mid-March for the 1999 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention. While international projects clearl…

Seahawk Minerals (SKM-V) reports that preliminary drilling at the Piteiras property in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has encountered emeralds.Two of four holes drilled into high-grade metamorphic rocks …

Although Canadian mining companies have made considerable progress improving their environmental record, few of them paid much attention to their social record — particularly in developing nations –…

General Minerals (GNM-T) has encountered significant mineralization while drilling at the Escalones copper-gold project, 100 km southeast of Santiago in central Chile.The company hit 125.9 metres grad…

Euro-Nevada Mining (EN-T) has offered to buy a majority interest in Golden Cycle Gold (GCC-P), minority owner of the Cripple Creek-Victor joint venture, west of Colorado Springs, Colo.Euro intends to …

Partners Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) and Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP-N) have announced a 3,000-metre drill program to expand known mineralization at the Pederson gold project in the Altiplano region of w…

A private placement has raised $600,000 for Montreal-based Yorbeau Resources (YRB.A-T), which will apply the proceeds to follow-up drilling at its Casa Berardi West gold property in northwestern Quebe…

Drilling by Montreal-based junior Cancor Mines (KCR-M) at its Gemini project in northwestern Quebec has intersected more base metal mineralization.Using a 100-by-100-metre pattern, crews drilled five …

Last year was a bitter one for Philex Gold (PGI-T), as both earnings and revenues plummeted.The Toronto-based company lost US$68.2 million on revenue of US$21.1 million, compared with a loss of US$11….