Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index dropped 12.98 points to close at 619.53, whereas the mining index fell below the 500 mark, to 490.01, for the report period ended April 28. However, the co…

Speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve Board may soon increase interest rates sapped some life out of the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index, which lost 197.85 points during the report period ended A…

Drilling at the Despinassy gold property, 70 km north of Val d’Or, Que., has returned encouraging results for partners Major General Resources (MGJ-V) and Cameco Gold, a wholly-owned unit of Cameco (C…

Vancouver-based Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) reports that progress is being made at its drill program on the Don Mario copper-gold deposit in eastern Bolivia.Assay results from 11 holes are “better than pr…

Preliminary exploration by Plata-Peru Resources (PPU-A) has confirmed the presence of base metal mineralization near its Pachapaqui mine in Peru.Work included ground geological mapping and sampling of…

Production at the Central American gold mines of Greenstone Resources (GRE-T) is on track to reach 233,000 oz. gold in 1998, a substantial increase from the 63,563 oz. produced in 1997.For the first q…

In early 1997, mining analysts from the London branch of Banque Paribas estimated that it would be a year before the benefits of a restructuring undertaken by Ashanti Goldfields (AHD.U-T) would be fel…

Encouraging results are reported from the first phase of exploration at the Silobela gold property in central Zimbabwe.Toronto-based Rift Resources (RIF-V), which is earning a half-interest in the pro…

While many of its peers chase opportunities abroad, Leader Mining International (LMN-A) remains firm in its belief that Canada still has the best exploration potential to offer.”The Canadian Shield st…