Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Bruce Kauffman and Fred Arkoosh appointed directors.

Robert Charlebois appointed president and director.

An updated reserve estimate was released by Black Swan Gold Mines (TSE) for its Whistler gold mine project in Western Australia. Proven and probable reserves available to the Whistler mill are now rep…

Fifteen years after it first went into production, Niobec, the only underground niobium mine in the world and the only mine of its kind in North America, continues to turn out at a relatively low cost…

Partners Greenstone Resources (TSE) and Boliden International Mining of Sweden have reported a “new area of surface gold mineralization” at their Santa Rosa heap leach project in Panama. Owned 49% by …

A joint venture agreement has been signed with a subsidiary of RTZ of London covering the exploration and possible development of four mineral licence areas in Greenland, Platinova Resources (TSE) rep…

Operators at the Golden Rule prospect in Arizona have exposed the property’s main vein on the second level. Cochise Resources (ASE) says that although grade along the 270-ft. drift exposure is varia…

Pacific Metals (ASE) has proposed a private placement of 1.4 million special warrants at a price of $1 to replace a previously announced common share placement. Each warrant will be exchangeable into…

An antitrust suit filed under court seal against Fairbanks Gold (TSE) was recently settled before becoming public. The court seal gives companies five business days to resolve a dispute before it beco…

Shares of Wheaton River Minerals, the first junior mining company to be cleared for listing on The Toronto Stock Exchange this year, were expected to be up and trading July 16. Formed to acquire the f…

An exploration drill program operated by Minerex Resources (TSE) has encountered the western extension of the Humboldt vein being mined at the Aurora Partnership heap leach operation in Mineral Cty., …

Horne had been negotiating with a U.S. partner for a 50% interest in the project for which leaching, the company said, may be the preferred method for metal extraction. That partner, Horne said, has a…