Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Subject to regulatory approval, Rea Gold (TSE) has agreed to sell its QR gold property near Quesnel, B.C., to CMP Resources (ME) for $450,000 plus 2.5 million shares of the company currently held by C…

The 50% interest in the Big Bell gold mine in Western Australia belonging to Placer Pacific, the 75.7% owned subsidiary of Placer Dome (TSE), has been sold to Poseidon Gold of Australia for about US$8…

Vancouver-based Kalahari Resources (VSE) recently optioned 1,000 claims in the Eastern Twps. of Quebec from Peter Ferderber and Associates in exchange for 300,000 shares. The claim group, called the A…

Representatives of the mining industry and five governments have signed a memorandum of understanding which will add another four years and $5.5 million to an environmental research program. The agree…

After a rather drastic restructuring, Heenan Senlac Resources is making something of a comeback. Its shares were suspended from trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange in April, 1990, for failure to mee…

Joint venture partners SEG Exploration (ME) and KWG Resources (ME) are proceeding with the collection of a bulk sample from their Granada gold property near Val d’Or, Que. The 20,000-ton sample will b…

Securities dealers, those orphan stockbrokers in Ontario that aren’t members of either The Toronto Stock Exchange or the Investment Dealers Association (IDA), have few friends these days. The Ontario …

The mining industry and its personalities have on occasion made interesting fodder for books that generally fall into two categories, the trash-for-cash expose or those so glowing they transform even …

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US58.25-58.75 cents per lb. (Sept. 10, 1992). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US78-88 cents per lb. (Jun. 11, 1992). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (Jun. 11, 19…

Toronto-based Noranda Minerals has effectively curtailed exploration activities in the eastern half of the U.S. by putting the brakes on projects in Wisconsin and closing its small North Carolina offi…

In 1991 Canada’s only commercial production of graphite came from Stratmin Inc. with a mine and concentrator at Lac-des-Iles, Quebec, and a concentrator at Notre-Dame-du-Laus, also in Quebec. The year…

The feasibility of processing zinc concentrates near Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, is being investigated by Platinova Resources (TSE) and the government of Greenland. The partners are looking at bui…