Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A diamond venture in South Africa is providing a new focus for Sonora Gold (SON-T), a junior previously active in gold exploration in California.Sonora recently acquired Windsorton Mining, which, in t…

The Vancouver Stock Market Exchange composite index remained flat over the report period ended Nov. 19, slipping 4.71 points to close at 1,149.79. The resource index closed down 43.5 points at 2,301.6…

The Toronto Stock Exchange continued strong in the past week, helped along by the base metal sector. The TSE 300 composite index had four more record-closing levels in the 5-day report period ended No…

Junior Virgina Gold Mines (VIA-M) has discovered a new showing, known as “Rock’n Hammer,” at its Auclair property, along the Eastmain River in northern Quebec.The company also reported the discovery o…

D. Campbell, Gary Liu, Ronnie Doman, Victor Erickson and Roger Nickel appointed directors.

Brian Labadie appointed senior vice-president of operations.

According to a Melbourne-based mining consulting firm, Australia is on-track to produce a record 290 tonnes of gold this year, up from 253.7 tonnes in 1995.The country produced 73 tonnes of the yellow…

The terms of a deal between Royal Oak Mines and Pelangio Larder Lake Mines were incorrectly stated in the article “Exall, Glimmer cut ribbon on Ontario Gold Project” (T.N.M., Nov. 11/96).In the Nighth…

Australian-owned BHP Minerals reports encouraging results from a drill program aimed at testing a large, coincident, copper-gold anomaly in the middle of the Taca-Taca (Lower) porphyry project in Arge…

In an effort to reopen the Golden Bear mine in northwestern British Columbia, Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has retained the services of an independent financial group to assist it in obtaining a loa…

Regulatory approvals are in place for Trillion Resources (TLQ-T) to acquire the Indarama property, a 16-sq.-km package of mining leases near Kwekwe in south-central Zimbabwe.Trillion is conducting a $…

Drill results from the Tabakoto gold project in western Mali reveal increasing grades and widths at depth, particularly in the central part of the Main zone.Nevsun Resources (NSU-T), which owns 90% of…