Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A recent agreement sets the stage for Amarado Resources (VSE) to acquire a private South African company whose assets include diamond exploration projects in Botswana and South Africa. The private com…

At the Illinois Creek property in Alaska’s interior, drilling by USMX (TSE) has confirmed the presence of the gold-silver resource previously calculated. The property, situated within 62,480 acres of …

A subsidiary of Golden Star Resources (TSE) is set to acquire all the outstanding shares of a French company based in French Guiana. Guyanor Ressources S.A. will pay US$4.1 million — and assume US$1….

At GeoNova Explorations’ (ME) Gander project in northwestern Quebec, stripping and channel sampling have confirmed the presence of two new gold zones. The first zone was the site of a discovery made e…

Details of a much-talked-about polymetallic discovery in southeastern Yukon are now available. Cominco (TSE), owner of the property, estimates the project’s inferred resource at 13 million tonnes grad…

The purchase of the Faro zinc-lead mine assets in the Yukon is complete, Anvil Range Mining reports. The company, which is in the process of going public, acquired the Faro assets of former miner Curr…

This year’s exploration and predevelopment work on the Brewery Creek gold property, east of Dawson City, Y.T., is nearing completion. The 1994 program, carried out by owner Loki Gold (TSE), was design…

Junior Silver Standard Resources (VSE) has an option to acquire the Lucifer property in central Mexico. The property comprises 290 hectares and is about 5 km north of the Mapimi mine, which produced s…

The chief executive officer of Kinross Gold, Robert Buchan, will speak at the Thursday, Nov. 17, luncheon of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. An incorr…

Toronto-listed Orvana Minerals recently acquired a half interest in a gold-copper project in Kyrgyzstan. Orvana will spend US$500,000 exploring two concession areas, as will joint-venture partner MK G…

Vancouver-based junior Redell Mining (VSE) is pleased with results of a summer drill program on the Mt. Freegold property, 30 miles northwest of Carmacks, Y.T. The program tested the potential of the …

Although Canada’s historic trade mission in China has focused on so-called “high technology” enterprises, attention may now be shifting to one of this country’s more traditional industries — mining. …