Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Preliminary feasibility work on the Ursa zone at the Golden Bear mine property in northwestern British Columbia indicates the deposit can be mined at a profit.Wheaton River Minerals (TSE), which contr…

Exploration work at the Parker Lake project, 60 miles west of Rankin Inlet, N.W.T., is turning up nickel-copper-cobalt massive sulphide mineralization.Parker Lake is owned 50% by Cumberland Resources …

Partners Consolidated Magna Ventures (VSE) and Consolidated Viscount Resources (VSE) have now identified seven drill targets on their Tasisuak Lake property, 50 km northwest of Voisey Bay, Labrador.Re…

Exploration of its land holdings in the Puttuaalu Lake area northwest of Nain, Labrador, has returned sulphides for Ace Developments (VSE).Twenty-five disseminated and massive sulphide occurrences hav…

Paragon Resources (PAR:VSE) has changed its name to Samex Mining (SXG:VSE) on a 1-new-for-5-old-share basis.

MEETINGSOct. 10, Acabit Oct. 10, Auriginor Oct. 10, KRL Res. Oct. 12, Conquest Oct. 12, Greystar Oct. 12, Loubel Oct. 13, Cache Oct. 13, Expl. SullidenOct. 13, Gold Bar Oct. 16, El Condor Oct. 16, Fai…

By purchasing an additional 10.1% of Compania Minera Zamora (Cominzasa), Latin American Gold (CDN) has become majority owner in the Ecuadorean gold company, with a 50.1% equity interest.South American…

The recent opening of the QR gold mine, 70 km southeast of this timber-mining town, marks a first for Kinross Gold (TSE). While the company already has six other operating mines, QR is the first that …

Drilling will begin shortly on the Benso gold concession in Ghana, West Africa.Fairstar Explorations (ME) (60%) and its joint-venture partner, Nora Explorations (ME) (40%), share the property.Fairstar…

Montreal-listed Barexor Minerals has acquired a lease comprising 153 claims in Nevada’s Crescent Valley.The property, which consists of more than 3,500 acres, is close to three major gold deposits, in…

Atlas (NYSE) recently optioned two gold properties, one in Arizona and the other in Nevada.For a 1-year option on the Commonwealth project in Arizona, Atlas must pay Harvest Gold US$125,000 initially,…

Physical demand for gold reached a new record level of 1,793 tonnes in the first half of 1995, according to a new study by U.K.-based Gold Fields Mineral Services.This increase in physical demand cont…