Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Anvil lead/zinc/silver district is 200 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. Five known stratiform sedimentary exhalative deposits occur in a well-defined trend within a narrow Cambrian stratigraphic…

Curragh Resources’ second Yukon operation, Sa Dena Hes, is approximately 45 km north of Watson Lake or about an hour by air south from Faro. (Sa Dena Hes is a joint venture between Curragh, 80%, and H…

Curragh Resources had planned on, and insulated itself against, a recession that would last no longer than nine months. Long-term debt was converted so that principal payments would only begin in 1996…

When Curragh Resources first considered taking over the Faro operation, concentrate transportation to the Alaskan seaport at Skagway was a key, make-or-break factor. The previous mine owners had relie…

Increased gold purchases by the state-run gold authority here have led to official predictions of a record-breaking production year in this key sector, Guyana’s fifth ranked foreign exchange earner. F…

Hopes that gold would be able to sustain a rally after it surged to US$341.10 on the futures market were quickly dashed today, April 22, as the spot price in London closed down 20 cents to US$338.10. …

Billing itself as a “new breed of copper producer,” Azco Mining (VSE) recently completed a $6.5-million financing in order to secure funds for a bankable feasibility study of its Sanchez copper projec…

Vital statistics for the Canadian mining industry in 1991 paint a gloomy picture. Value of production, not including petroleum and natural gas, was down 15.9% to $10.4 billion. Employment in mining, c…

Toronto-based Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) recently increased its stake in Freewest Resources (TSE) to 13.4% by purchasing 268,516 common shares under financing agreements signed during the past two years. …

Western markets continued to slide over the period ended Apr. 21, with the Easter long weekend dampening an already lacklustre mood for resource issues. The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index sl…

The decision to construct a copper smelter at Kitimat on the British Columbia coast is now delicately balanced — the result of several key decisions made recently by the copper industry around the wo…

Captains of industry are often portrayed as nose-to-the-grindstone types with little interest in anything but business at hand. But this dated stereotype clearly doesn’t apply to Poul Hansen, presiden…