Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Assays are being received for the first-phase drilling program at the Goldridge gold prospect in Oregon, Golconda Resources reported. The junior, which slipped a penny to 65 cents, traded almost 300,0…

Williams Creek Explorations Ltd. — 900,000 shares offered @ 50 cents per share. Jordex Resources Inc. — 400,000 shares offered @ $2.03 per share. Thios Resources Inc. — 1,500,000 units consisting o…

Gerald Ross appointed chairman of the board and chief executive officer; Hugh Ross appointed president and chief financial officer; Ketan Panchmatia appointed secretary/treasurer.

Ontario Hydro has already begun shopping around for new uranium sources to replace the amounts supplied under recently cancelled long-term contracts signed with Denison Mines (TSE). While uranium prod…

Sherritt Gordon (TSE) Chairman Ian Delaney and President Bruce Walter recently delivered on a promise to invest more of their own money in the Toronto-based metal refiner and fertilizer producer. Acco…

Price (US) Week’s Change Gold* $356.25 + $ 0.35 Silver* $3.97 + $ 0.03 Platinum* $394.25 + $ 0.80 Nickel** $4.10 …

Cominco began its high Arctic development with the Black Angel silver-lead-zinc mine in Greenland in 1973. In 1982, it opened the Polaris lead-zinc mine in the Arctic Islands. And in late 1989, tune-u…

Gerald Ross appointed chairman of the board and chief executive officer; Hugh Ross appointed president and chief financial officer; Ketan Panchmatia appointed secretary-treasurer.

The Parson barite mine in British Columbia recently won the 40th annual Small Mine Safety Award for the third consecutive year. The Parson operation, privately owned by Mountain Minerals of Lethbridge…

Much dissension and flak pertaining to the New Democratic Party of Ontario’s initial budget has been voiced in the national press and across the airwaves. Anything we could write here would be almost …

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US63.50-65.75 cents per lb. (Apr. 18, 1991). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US84-85 cents per lb. (Mar. 14, 1991). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Jan. 31, 1991). C…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange High Low Close Week’s Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) May 107.80 105.80 105.90 — 2.80 Jun 107.60 106.20 105.70 — …