Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Vancouver-based Crystallex International (VSE) reported the commencement this month of gold production at its Albino open-pit mine in Venezuela. Albino is Crystallex’s first producing property. Output…

For many Americans, Latin America is still an economic backwater plagued by widespread poverty, runaway inflation and huge public debt. Yet to a large extent this image is out of step with reality. Am…

Anthony Millar appointed director and chairman.

J. Belton elected preisident.

Graeme Robinson appointed interim president and chief executive officer.

The feverish quest to find a diamond mine in Canada has spread from the Northwest Territories to cover much of the country, including northern Ontario. The diamond rush began in the Territories, north…

Several years ago, Venezuela’s Kilometre 88 district was the place to be for junior companies hoping to discover a premier gold deposit. To date, however, new finds of the size and importance of Place…

SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt told a congressional panel that the SEC will make the examinations over the next 6-8 months, Knight-Ridder reports. SEC will visit “scores” of securities branch offices duri…

Toronto-listed Athabaska Gold Resources (TSE) can acquire the assets of the Ladner Creek gold mine near Hope, B.C. The assets include a 1,500-ton-per-day gold processing mill and a tailings pond. Unde…

Almost half of Venezuela is underlain by a mineral-rich, unglaciated, Precambrian-aged craton known as the Guiana Shield. This geological entity is analogous to the Canadian Shield and, until recently…

Partners Noranda Minerals and Rhonda Mining (ASE) have discovered a new sediment-hosted copper deposit on the Epworth property, 120 km south of Coppermine, N.W.T. Exploration over the past three years…

Shareholders of Crew Natural Resources (VSE) have approved a corporate name change to South Crofty Holdings, as well as a consolidation of shares on a 2-for-1 basis. The name change reflects the compa…