Articles by Northern Miner Staff


PEOPLE — BRENNA

Bennett Kaplan appointed vice-president and chief executive officer; Avigdor Eskin appointed vice-president of Russian operations.








Correction (April 28, 1997)

At the Camsell Lake diamond project in the Northwest Territories, Winspear Resources (wsp-v) recovered several pyropes and a single coarse chromite grain from the core surface of the kimberlite inters…


Bre-X release adds fuel to rumor mill

Rumors, of course, fly better in a vacuum.Shares of Bre-X Minerals (bxm-t) took a wild ride on April 23, as rumors about the company’s Busang gold project in Kalimantan, Indonesia, proliferated thanks…


`Desert dirts’ all the rage in southwestern U.S.

In the mid-1980s, a junior company touting a huge platinum resource told potential investors that the U.S. Bureau of Mines had “verified” the presence of platinum at its property in Arizona.”Not true,…


OPINION/GARRY HAWTHORN — Assaying unravelled

Although I have not examined a questionable gold deposit since the late 1980s, I am concerned that the problem has not gone away.A few weeks ago, I received a review of six so-called desert sand gold …


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