Articles by Northern Miner Staff

British Columbia Labour Minister Moe Sihota is warning that violence could break out in the province’s East Kootenay district if Fording Coal hires Albertans to fill jobs formerly held by Elk Valley r…

The vice-chairman of Echo Bay Mines (TSE), John Zigarlick, has retired after 24 years with the gold-silver producer. Zigarlick, president of Echo Bay from 1977 to 1991, was named Mining Man of the Yea…

Consulting firm Pincock, Allen & Holt of Colorado was recently awarded a contract to design a restructuring program for Bolivian state-owned mining company COMIBOL. An earlier story (T.N.M., Dec. 7/92…

Ownership of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSE) continues to shift more and more to the general public. The Saskatoon-based company said Saskatchewan’s interest in the potash producer is dropping to a…

A drilling program to confirm the source of mineralized boulders at the Sagar-III gold-uranium property in the Labrador trough area of Quebec should start in January, Virginia Gold Mines (ME) says. An…

In early 1992, after four years of negotiations, Falconbridge signed an agreement with the Ontario government which permits exploration to occur on the old Kam Kotia mine property near Timmins, Ont. T…

Results from eight drill holes outside the known gold resources at the Rosebud property in Nevada recently returned erratic, discontinuous gold values. The Rosebud project is a 49-51 joint venture bet…

Midway through a runup in the price of Gerle Gold (VSE) shares, director William Wolodarsky sold about a third of his stake in the junior diamond explorer. According to the Ontario Securities Commissi…

A surface drilling program by Noranda Exploration, a unit of Noranda (TSE), on its 100% owned Bell Allard South property near Matagami, Que., has intersected a new deep massive sulphide zone. One of t…

For investors in metals, the 1990s has been a treacherous time. First, North America dipped deeply into recession and, now that the U.S. and Canada are limping toward recovery, Europe and Japan are sl…

Drilling on the Piedras Verdes copper-oxide project in southern Sonora, Mexico, recently encountered a new high-grade zone of copper mineralization adjacent and to the west of the Main zone. Owner Azc…

Contrary to a widely held industry belief, Ontario is committed to the mining industry. At least that is the message delivered by the provincial government at the Ontario Mines and Minerals Symposium …