Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Similco copper mine near Princeton, B.C., will remain open until the end of November. It was previously scheduled to close Sept. 10. Owner Princeton Mining (TSE) is working with the Job Protection…

Gold Funds as of Sept. 14 BGR Central Net Value $12.93 $5.72 Price $10.38 $6.125 Discount 19.79% 7.1% Value $72,449,000 $110,858,213…

A second hard look is being given to the Hackett River mineral belt about 200 km east of Metall Mining’s (TSE) Izok Lake project in the Northwest Territories. Inactive until recently, the belt has bee…

— Week — Sept 14 Sept 13 Sept 10 Sept 9 Sept 8 High Low Composite”300″ 3972.12 3971.77 4001.69 4009.32 3952.87 4009.32 3929.33 Metals&Minerals 2966.90 3001.64 3019.55 3024.52 2988.58 3033.35 2965.42…

The beautiful setting of the Golden Bear mine, at the base of a steep, near-alpine valley, contrasts starkly with the property’s troubled past. The ground was originally staked by Chevron in 1981; and…

An update on the Izok Lake project will be provided by Ken Hill and Frank Balint of Metall Mining at a Sept. 24 luncheon here of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM). The z…

Drilling by Aur Resources (TSE) and Thunderwood Resources (TSE) has failed to intersect massive sulphides at the Jones Hill base metal property near Albuquerque, N.M. The companies elected not to cont…

Having survived as a junior for more than a decade, Rea Gold (TSE) is establishing itself as an operating company with the ability to construct and manage mines. Headed by James Hogan and a new manage…

Sudbury, Ont.-based Jarvis Resources (VSE) has optioned four separate claims in Grigg and Scadding twps., raising to 19 its claim units in the area. Former work on the properties has identified units …

Diamond producer De Beers of South Africa reported a 42% increase in sales of rough diamonds to US$2.5 million during the first six months of 1993 compared with the same period last year. De Beers sai…

During the past 100 years and more, the mining industry and the organizations which sprang up around it — the provincial associations, the Mining Association of Canada and the Prospectors and Develop…

Lead-zinc producer Curragh (TSE) may be near bankruptcy. The Toronto-based company, under protection from creditors and with no cash, will find out its fate Sept. 20 when unsecured creditors render th…