Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Hecla Mining (HL-N) will put down 20 reverse-circulation holes in a 4,000-metre program aimed at testing three targets on the Cacique gold property in north-central Chile.The largest of these targets …

Intent on becoming the largest gold producer in Costa Rica, Laguna Gold (LGC-T) is making rapid progress in building its Rio Chiquito mine, The company mobilized contractors in November 1998 and began…

Drilling by St Andrew Goldfields (SAS-T) has outlined what could evolve into an open-pit gold deposit at its Hislop property near Matheson, Ont.Fifteen core holes sunk in the previously discovered Wes…

Etruscan Resources (EET-T) has signed a US$6.75-million deal with Ashanti Goldfields (AHD.U-T) and Iamgold (IMG-T) to acquire the partners’ equally held Saoura permit, situated adjacent to Etru…

Metallica Resources (MR-T) has encountered significant copper-gold mineralization at the El Morro porphyry prospect in north-central Chile.In the second hole of a 10-hole program that spanned 2,000 me…

A major copper producer plans to explore the Princess property on Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula for its potential to host volcanic red-bed copper and/or epithermal porphyry copper-gold mineraliza…

Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T) proposed takeover of Sutton Resources (STT-T) has forced a change in management at the latter’s Bulyanhulu gold project in Tanzania.The current project manager, Placer Dome Tech…

Ecuadorian Minerals (EMC-T) intends to raise US$2.5 million to explore three gold properties: Vetaspata in Peru; Beroen in central Ecuador; and Paccha in southern Ecuador.At Vetaspata, north of Lake T…

Drilling by Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) is expanding the size of the Don Mario gold project in eastern Bolivia, near the Brazilian border.The junior encountered ore-grade mineralization in two of five rec…