Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drilling is set to begin on the Ponce Enriquez gold project in Ecuador. Owner Zappa Resources (VSE) identified three large gold zones during a 9-month-long program of geochemical and geophysical surve…

Heavy rains have forced North American Metals (VSE) to suspend construction of a heap-leach pad at its Golden Bear mine in northwestern British Columbia. North American Metals is 81.4% owned by Wheato…

The proven and probable mineral resource for the Amayapampa mine in Bolivia is now estimated at 4.3 million tonnes grading 2.82 grams gold per tonne. Da Capo Resources (VSE), which is working to outli…

John Hyndman and Jacob Friesen appointed directors.

Fred Knight appointed director.

A longstanding employee of Agnico-Eagle Mines, Gordon Kirk, has died at a hospital in Oshawa, Ont. He served on the boards of directors of Agnico-Eagle and related companies Mentor Exploration and Dev…

The discovery of diamonds in the Northwest Territories, while old news in Canada, is virtually unheralded in the U.S. This development will change within a few weeks when Dia Met Minerals begins tradi…

Geologist Stephen Evans has died at the veterans’ wing of Sunnybrook Hospital at Toronto. He worked in the mining industry for more than 45 years.

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The Alaska Miners Association will host a 3-day conference in Juneau next year focusing on mining in the future. The theme of Conference Juneau 1995, scheduled for April 19-21, will be “From the Klond…

Gold Funds as of Sept 26 BGR Central Net Value $18.13 $6.87 Price $16.00 $7.25 Premium 5.5 Discount 11.74% Value $147,279,000 $131,219,925…

A strengthening gold sector and stable U.S. interest rates did little to boost the Toronto Stock Exchange over the 5-day report period ended Sept. 27. The composite 300 index dropped 16.09 points to e…