Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Controversial Vancouver promoter Robert Friedland is severing his ties with Vengold (TSE). Friedland sold 2.8 million shares to several arm’s-length investors, plus 445,000 shares in a private transac…

The Spanish Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by Exminesa related to royalties owing to Mount Wright Iron Mines (CDN) from the lead-zinc-silver Rubiales mine in Spain. Exminesa was appealing…

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the U.S. expects world coal consumption to increase by 30% between 1990 and 2010, from 5.1 billion to 6.5 billion tons. Five regions stand out as major f…

A major world gold producer for many years, Russia now ranks fifth on an international level, behind South Africa, the U.S., Australia and Canada. Russia produced about 65% of the former Soviet Union’…

A bankable feasibility study has been completed on the Leninogorsk gold tailings project in Kazakhstan.

A graduate student of the University of Nevada, in Reno, has been trying to help Homestake Mining save on its air-conditioning bill at its deep gold mine in South Dakota. Ian Duckworth, a mining engin…

Steven Kesler appointed chief executive officer.

Leslie MacConnell appointed president and chief executive officer.

Peter Dahl appointed director.

Evangelo Catevatis appointed director.

John Pearson appointed director of investor relations.

Douglas Hyndman and Peter Dunfield appointed directors.