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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Grayd funds Alaskan work
Junior Grayd Resource (GYD-V) has raised $750,000 in a non-brokered private placement consisting of 3 million units priced at 25 cents each.A unit consists of one share and one non-transferable warran…
WMC finds more gold
WMC International, the North American unit of Australian major Western Mining, has discovered more gold-bearing iron formation at the Meliadine West gold project, 20 km north of Rankin Inlet, N.W.T.Si…
U of T offers remote-sensing course
A short course on remote-sensing in mineral exploration will follow this year’s convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, in Toronto.The course, to be held March 19-20 at the…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — NEW HORIZONS — Responsibility at heart of INAP
The International Network for Acid Prevention is a recently established organization founded by 17 of the world’s leading mining companies. Its purpose is to promote significant improvements in the ma…
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Apex drills Platosa property
Denver-based Apex Silver Mines (SIL-X) has begun drilling at Excellon Resources’ (EXN-V) Platosa polymetallic property, near Bermijillo in Mexico’s Durango state.Apex can earn a 65% direct interest in…
Plug pulled on Pinson
Homestake Mining (HM-N) has closed the Pinson gold mine, near Winnemucca, Nev., after it failed to reach production targets.Pinson is a 50-50 joint venture with Barrick Gold (ABX-T). The mine was expe…
PGEs found near Sudbury
Pacific Northwest Capital (PFN-A) continues to receive encouraging grades from its grassroots platinum and palladium project near Sudbury, Ont.Channel samples from sulphide-bearing gabbro returned 23….
EDITORIAL & OPINION — ODDS ‘N’ SODS — A good deal gone bad
During the mid-1950s, I did a lot of mining exploration work in a farming area a few miles west of Senneterre, in northwestern QuebecHowever, our story starts years earlier, when a geology professor a…
Diamonds steal the show at Cordilleran Roundup
The pervasive mood at this year’s annual Cordilleran Roundup was cautious optimism, perhaps because many delegates felt that there was nowhere to go but up. However, if attendance is any indication of…
SME meeting set for Colorado
The minerals-processing division of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration will hold its annual meeting May 21-22 at the Broadmoor Springs Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo.Entitled “Operating…