Articles by Northern Miner Staff

In the late 1500s, Spanish explorers began finding high-grade polymetallic mineralization in the San Lorenzo mountains in north-central Mexico. More recently, Canadian joint-venture partners William R…

A program of infill drilling is planned this year for the Cuatro Hermanos porphyry copper project in Sonora state, Morgain Minerals (VSE) reports. Cost of the drilling is estimated to be US$3.5 millio…

Toronto-listed International Gold Resources (IGR) has finished an initial exploration program on its Youga gold property in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The work consisted of mapping and geochemical sam…

Preparing La Cienega mine in the northwest of Durango state for underground production this year is the Penoles group. The project’s deposits sit in a 4-km-long system of quartz veins and host gold-si…

Outgoing Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and former Italian trade minister Renato Ruggiero are the favorites to head the new World Trade Organization (WTO), diplomats said recently in Gene…

Halloween was still weeks away, but that did not prevent the ghost of Windy Craggy from stalking the District 6 annual general meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CI…

Acheron Resources (ACZ: VSE) has changed its name to Abaddon Resources (ABA: VSE) on a 1-new-for-9-old-sh basis.

Western markets appear to have slipped into the fall-winter doldrums despite the considerable amount of exploration activity taking place in the Southern Hemisphere. Gold is not helping matters, altho…

A report in our Oct. 17 issue incorrectly stated that Atlas (NYSE) will combine Granges (TSE), Hycroft Resources & Development (TSE) and Dakota Mining (TSE) into one company. Atlas does plan to initia…

Having been active in Sonora state for some 30 years, it should come as no surprise that Campbell Resources (TSE) holds interests in a pair of Mexican gold mines. Last July, the company bought its sec…

Drilling on the Tacaza project in southeastern Peru has outlined a geological resource of 4.4 million tonnes grading 1.35% copper, based on a 0.5% cutoff. Kookaburra Resources (VSE) has drilled 7,700 …

Arizona-based Magma Copper (NYSE) has outbid six international competitors for control of newly privatized Empresa Minera Especial Tintaya, Peru’s second-largest copper producer. Magma paid the Peruvi…