Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A positive mood is prevailing among junior mining companies active in the Yukon. Exploration spending increased to more than $30 million this season, economic deals have been signed with First Nations…

Mining in this part of northern Saskatchewan ceased more than 10 years ago, leaving the town with few people and limited prospects. One thing that did not change was the geology and the potential for …

During the previous few years, mining people here have not seen significant exploration activity in the Red Lake area. In 1994, however, several major and a few junior resource companies have again fo…

Despite the flurry of exploration being conducted by Canadians around the world, many companies continue to search for mines in the major mining camps of Ontario. Most of this activity is centred arou…

The Northwest Territories diamond play has had its high and low points during the past two years. One of the lowest was the evaporation, some months ago, of hundreds of millions of dollars in sharehol…

The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite and resource indexes continue to reach new lows for the year. For the report period ended Nov. 22, the composite index dropped 32.22 points to close at 762.98. T…

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) took another beating this week, as nervous investors dumped their shares in favor of higher interest-bearing investments, such as bonds. This exit from the equity mark…

A 58-hole drill program has wound down at the Red Chris porphyry copper-gold deposit in northwestern British Columbia. American Bullion Minerals (VSE) holds an 80% interest in the project, while Teck …

Toronto-listed Rea Gold is set to begin the engineering work required to complete a final feasibility study of the Bissett gold project in eastern Manitoba. The decision was made on the basis of resul…

Junior RFC Resource Finance (TSE) continues to drive a decline at the Pend Oreille base metals deposit north of Spokane, Wash. The decline will provide a drill platform to explore for extensions of th…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US90.5 cents-91.5 per lb. (Nov. 3, 1994). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Sept. 29, 1994). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$3.90-4.20 per lb. (Oct. 27, 1994)….

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. has concluded that certain specific actions should be taken for the Kensington gold project in Alaska to meet environmental requirements and compl…