Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Western markets managed to gain ground during the report period ended Sept. 20, amid a rising gold price and a general lack of bad news. The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index added 8.65 points …

A strengthening gold sector helped the Toronto Stock Exchange post a modest gain over the 5-day report period ended Sept. 20. The composite 300 index moved up 32.65 points to end the period at 4,376.8…

Vancouver-listed Royalstar Resources has completed the first phase of a bulk-sampling program on its Sloan 2 diatreme in the State Line district, within Colorado’s Laramie Cty. A 3,000-tonne bulk samp…

Peter Munk appointed chairman and director; Robert Smith, Howard Beck, C. Birchall, Gregory Wilkins, Andrew Sarlos, Randall Oliphant and Patrick Garver appointed directors.

John Fitzpatrick appointed director.

CDN-listed Romfield Building has opted to acquire four claims in Tudor Twp., 90 km northeast of Peterborough, Ont. The company has staked an additional 22 claims adjacent to those optioned. Romfield w…

Acting on a geological technical report of a granite prospect in northeastern Alberta, Rich Capital (VSE) has begun on-site operations and is extracting block stone destined for locations in Canada an…

Noranda (TSE) intends to redeem all of its outstanding Series B fixed/floating-rate, cumulative, redeemable, retractable, convertible preferred shares on Oct. 15 at $26 per share. Holders may either r…

Despite recent disappointing results from exploration in the Northwest Territories, companies are quietly continuing to explore other areas of the country. Four areas of note within Ontario and Quebec…

Ross Blusson appointed director.

James Tilsley appointed director.

Malcolm Slack appointed director.