NEWS ROUNDUP — Silver Standard options Lucifer
Junior Silver Standard Resources (VSE) has an option to acquire the Lucifer property in central Mexico. The property comprises 290 hectares and is about 5 km north of the Mapimi mine, which produced s…
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Orvana teams with MK Gold
Toronto-listed Orvana Minerals recently acquired a half interest in a gold-copper project in Kyrgyzstan. Orvana will spend US$500,000 exploring two concession areas, as will joint-venture partner MK G…
Redell drills Yukon property
Vancouver-based junior Redell Mining (VSE) is pleased with results of a summer drill program on the Mt. Freegold property, 30 miles northwest of Carmacks, Y.T. The program tested the potential of the …
Barrick signs agreements in China
Although Canada’s historic trade mission in China has focused on so-called “high technology” enterprises, attention may now be shifting to one of this country’s more traditional industries — mining. …
American Bullion drills Red Chris
Drilling continues to expand copper-gold reserves at the Red Chris porphyry deposit, south of Dease Lake in northwestern British Columbia. American Bullion Minerals (VSE) holds an 80% interest and Tec…
New Canamin advances Huckleberry
A positive feasibility study on the Huckleberry porphyry copper deposit in west-central British Columbia marks the culmination of more than two years of work and $6.6 million in expenditures for owner…
Base metal discovery in Labrador
Vancouver-listed Diamond Fields Resources has discovered base metals mineralization containing nickel, copper and cobalt in southern Labrador. The nearest town is Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The mineraliz…
Huancaylla returns wide copper values
The first drill hole on the Huancaylla property in Peru has returned a 380.6-ft. intersection grading 1.13% copper, starting at surface. The hole was abandoned because of lost circulation at 380.6 ft….
Teck to fund Petaquilla study
Vancouver-based Teck (TSE) plans to fund a final feasibility study of the Petaquilla copper deposits in Panama, which were the subject of a preliminary study by Kilborn Engineering. A recent agreement…
Ethiopia seeking mineral investment
After 17 years of socialist rule and an ensuing civil war, the transitional government of Ethiopia is instituting a number of policies aimed at improving the political, social and economic sectors of …
Clarification (November 14, 1994)
In its issue of June 14, 1993, The Northern Miner published an article on the first and second pages under the headline “Gold values elusive at Oregon exploration property.” The article contained refe…
ODDS’N’SODS — Optimism knows no bounds
In 1966, New Senator Mines drilled a wildcat exploratory hole in a churchyard in the beautiful village of Margaretsville on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. On the first day that the drill rig was bei…