Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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A program to extract a 15,000-ton bulk sample from the Elder gold project in the Rouyn-Noranda area of northwestern Quebec is under way, joint venture partners Aunore Resources and Nova Beaucage Mines…

A week of see-saw trading which recorded three consecutive days of declines, took a turn for the better following news from the U.S. that house sales in February increased by 20.3% — the largest such…

An option to earn a 25% interest in the Normetal gold property located northwest of La Sarre, Que., has been acquired by Orfinance Resources from Normetal Mining Exploration. To earn its interest, Orf…

Surrounded by coniferous bush, 209 km northeast of Timmins, Ont., sits the Detour Lake gold mine. It is the only fly-in mining operation in Ontario and, as such, has kept a pretty low profile within t…

At least once a month, as workloads and budgets allow, one of our magazine staffers flies off to tour and report on a mine in Canada. This is a matter of policy — we can’t adequately cover an industr…

The Cariboo district of British Columbia, famous for its colorful and prosperous gold rush in the middle of the last century, now seems to be entering a new period of mining activity. But whereas the …

Opening shots for the big new development program at the Macassa mine, in Kirkland Lake, Ont., were fired this week. Sinking operations began Monday on the new 4,000-ft shaft, in the centre of the pro…

“Zeballos is the best thing that has happened to this province’s gold-mining industry in ages,” the deputy minister of mines for British Columbia stated last week at a meeting here of the Engineering …

Harry Preston was probably the first and maybe the only Canadian prospector to lose his footing and find a mine. The story goes that in June, 1909, Preston, in a prospecting group led by John Wilson, …

Placer Dome takes a back seat to no one when it comes to finding and building new mines. In Canada, the company is evaluating three potential producers: the Eastmain project, 185 miles northeast of C…

Almost three years ago, when John Walton joined what was then Placer Development as its president and chief executive officer, the question mining people were asking was “Who is John Walton?” And for …