Articles by Northern Miner Staff

By spending $75,000 on exploration this year and $750,000 over five years, Fosters Resources (ASE) can earn a half interest in 130 claims in New Brunswick. Exploration of the 5,200-acre property will …

The shaft at the Doyon gold mine 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., will be deepened to 1,024 metres from 654 metres. Equal Doyon partners Cambior (TSE) and Lac Minerals (TSE) have approved a feasibil…

Drilling on the Huckleberry property near Houston, B.C., has returned several copper intersections from a new area northwest of the Main zone deposit. Owner New Canamin Resources (VSE) drilled the are…

Toronto-listed Adex Mining is seeking shareholder approval to transfer its interests in the Asia Pacific porphyry copper project to a new company known as Tequila Copper, which will soon begin trading…

A polymetallic massive sulphide discovery by Cominco (TSE) has sparked increased interest in the Finlayson Lake area of southeastern Yukon. Atna Resources (TSE) recently enlarged its two claim blocks …

The Quebrada Blanca mine in northern Chile has yielded its first cathode copper. Perched in the Andes at an altitude of 4,300 metres, near the Bolivian border, the mine is in the midst of completing i…

Geological and geophysical targets have been outlined on the DKO gold property of International Homestead Resources (VSE) near Larder Lake, Ont. A program of line cutting and geophysical surveys has b…

— A preliminary feasibility study by Kilborn Engineering Pacific recommends the Petaquilla and Botija copper-gold deposits proceed to the final feasibility stage. Adrian Resources (TSE), which can ea…

The first mining co-op students recently received their diplomas as mining engineering technicians from the Haileybury School of Mines at Haileybury, Ont. A co-op system allows students to alternate a…

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) plans to build a new headquarters and trading floor in Manhattan’s Battery Park City. The commodity futures and options exchange grew recently when the Commodi…

The remnants of a gold-dredging operation that ceased production about 70 years ago are providing Cominco Resources International (TSE) with the makings of a new mining operation. The company is worki…

Karen Gross appointed president.