Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Antares Mining and Exploration (TSE) has gained access to the Long John Eight orebody at the Lady Lina gold property in Zimbabwe. Underground development is planned to evaluate and upgrade, to reserve…

Underwriters Sprott Securities and Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion will issue two million special warrants of Richmont Mines (TSE) to Canadian investors in December. Each warrant, priced at $4, will entit…

Joutel Resources (TSE) has sold nine million units at 45 cents through a group of underwriters led by Gordon Capital. The sale closed Nov. 25. Each unit consists of one subordinate voting share and on…

Exploration is under way on four concessions held by Bolivar Goldfields (VSE) in southeastern Venezuela. The junior holds one of the largest land positions in the country’s Guyana Shield, encompassing…

Vancouver-listed partners Emerald Isle Resources (VSE) and Stralak Resources (VSE) have begun exploring a garnet property northeast of Sudbury, Ont. Previous work on the Street Twp. joint venture outl…

A rights offering has netted Canuc Resources (CDN) about $510,000, enabling the company, once again, to explore for minerals. It is now evaluating two gold properties in Mexico and Spain. In other new…

Caribgold Resources (CDN) has completed a placement of 2.5 million units to a group of European investors. Each unit consists of one common share and half a warrant at $1.65 per unit. Each whole warra…

Junior Abacus Minerals (VSE) has completed trenching and sampling on the Brookfield gold project in Nova Scotia. The project lies within the province’s Meguma group of rocks. Abacus is looking for dis…

Eric Wiltzen appointed president or director.

More than 550,000 acres of state land in Alaska will soon be open to claim-stakers. Governor Walter Hickel made the announcement at the annual convention of the Alaska Miners Association. The land has…

With drilling completed for the season at its Casino copper-gold-molybdenum project in the southern Yukon, Pacific Sentinel Gold (VSE) has arrived at a preliminary mineral estimate. The deposit is bel…

Toronto-listed Platinova A/S has reported encouraging values from its sedimentary-exhalitive-type zinc discovery in northeast Greenland. The company holds an exploration concession which covers a sedi…