Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Great Lakes Minerals (TSE) has acquired the right to purchase all the issued and outstanding shares of Keweenaw Copper Company (KCC), a private Michigan-based company, in exchange for 550,000 shares o…

Discussions over a possible business combination between Hecla Mining (NYSE) and Alta Gold (NASDAQ) have been discontinued. The companies had signed a letter of intent to consider various transactions…

To ease its financial difficulties, Toronto-based explorer Jerome Gold Mines (ASE) says it has signed a letter of intent to amalgamate with privately owned International Platinum. Jerome, which held a…

Sikaman Gold Resources (TSE) of Toronto says it has completed arrangements for a $600,000 private placement for a 12% convertible redeemable debenture But as the company has received additional commit…

A plan to bring Rhyolite Resources back to life should result in gold production in the new year. The company plans to bring its gold-copper property on Texada Island in British Columbia back into pro…

This collection of proceedings, delivered at a conference organized by the University of Calgary in Alberta, covers mine planning, mine design, production technology and geotechnical engineering for s…

In 1951, the MacLeod Cockshutt gold mine near Geraldton, Ont., hired the rangy, 16-year-old son of one of its miners. The boy had just graduated from high school, tops in a sparse class of only seven….

It is common for one of the parties to a joint venture to have a particular wish to be the operator. This desire often arises when the party putting up the money wants to have control over how its mon…

Feb 6-9, Vancouver, B.C. Annual Cordilleran Roundup. Sponsored by the B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines, B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Geological Survey of Canada, Dept. of India…

Situated 110 km northwest of Stewart, B.C., the Johnny Mountain gold mine has geological reserves of 796,000 tonnes grading 18.9 g per tonne. The gold vein deposit is owned by Skyline Gold Corp. Coppe…

Contrary to what some may think, the Red Dog mine in northwestern Alaska has not been built on a grand scale — four 85-ton trucks, a couple of loaders and drills. Practically any medium-sized heap le…

The pace of mine-building is slowing. In January, 1988, we reported that 32 new Canadian mines would produce ore before year-end. In 1989, we listed 18 new mines that were being readied for start-up. …