Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The writing is on the wall, and in red ink. Our preoccupation with things constitutional and our perceived inability or unwillingness to deal with economic issues have worried foreigners. Statistics C…

Reacting to growing unemployment and falling confidence, consumers worldwide are cutting all unessential spending, including metals. Ignoring their consumers and voters, governments, with huge deficit…

By the second quarter of 1993, International Musto Explorations (TSE) expects to complete a feasibility study which it hopes will bring the technical and economic potential of the Bajo de la Alumbrera…

With the recent completion of an 8-hole drilling program on the Keystone project in South Dakota, Cyprus Minerals (NYSE) has opted to drop its option. Cypress could earn a 50% interest in the property…

Projected rates of asbestos-linked disease in the U.S. were grossly exaggerated, says the president of the Asbestos Institute of Montreal. Michel Gratton was responding to the publication of several s…

Consolidated Oasis Resources (ME) has secured the right to earn a 50% interest in two gold properties in Verneuil Twp., Que., from VSM Exploration (TSE) and Serem Quebec. Oasis can earn the interest b…

An option agreement to acquire a 100% leasehold interest in the Sawyer mine property in Randolph Cty., N.C., from Carolina Mines has been entered into by Minefinders (VSE). A multi-year schedule of pa…

Herman Becker-Fluegel and Michael Coulter, two officers of United Reef Petroleums (TSE), sold a large block of their holdings in the diamond explorer in September, according to the Ontario Securities …

Battling against a hostile environment, a remote location and ho-hum metal prices, Falconbridge is now viewing its 100% owned Raglan property in northern Quebec with fresh enthusiasm. A 4-year explora…

The Bridge River area, about 100 miles north of Vancouver, was once one of the most prolific mining areas in Western Canada. Placer gold was originally discovered in the area in 1863 with the two majo…

Former Chutine Resources (VSE) president Peter Holmes and Exall Resources (TSE) President Stephen Roman have joined forces to tackle projects in Mexico and Guyana. “I saw Stephen Roman at the PDAC (Pr…

We have received numerous phone calls after you published erraneous information about Ile Bizard, just outside of Montreal (T.N.M., Oct. 5/92). Please be advised that Quebec’s Ministry of Energy and R…