Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A 5,000- metre diamond drilling program is scheduled to begin before month- end at the Big Island property located near Flin Flon, Man. Minnova (TSE) is earning a 50% interest in the property from New…

Funds made available through a 6-month line of credit will allow Major General Resources (VSE) to initiate a winter drilling program at its wholly owned Meen Lake, McVean Lake and First Loon propertie…

Drilling will get under way at the Grandroy mine project near Chibougamau, Que., this month, says property-owner Inlet Resources (VSE). Inlet will be testing the depth potential of the copper-gold dep…

It wasn’t exactly a stellar year in 1990 for the precious metals’ industry and if analysts are correct, 1991 isn’t going to be much better. At least not for gold and silver. Last year, high interest r…

A porphyry gold prospect in southern California has been acquired by Golconda Resources which rose 16 cents to close at 28 cents on volume of 82,000 shares. Golconda said widespread gold mineralizatio…

The Vancouver market indices remained relatively quiet during the report period ended Jan. 8, with little news to help spur activity. The composite index remained virtually unchanged at the 627-level …

Having recently completed an annual review of trading activity on the composite 300 index, The Toronto Stock Exchange is dropping six mining issues from the index and adding one. To disappear from the…

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame awards ceremony, the industry’s annual tribute to its most distinguished citizens, just keeps on getting bigger. At the recent third annual dinner function at Toronto’…

Valuation of mineral deposits and companies will be the subject of the Canadian Insitute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s sixth mineral economics symposium Jan. 17 at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre. S…

Minefinders get the glory, but the minebuilders get the ore. For 65 years, while others discovered and financed the deposits, John C. MacIsaac applied his energies to breaking the first rock, sinking …

The market is in such bad shape that it doesn’t matter who’s running it, remarked one over-the- counter broker when asked to comment on the TSE’s recent decision to take over COATS. It remains to be s…

It was John E. Hammell’s ambition to “crack open the north,” and he did that through his pioneering use of aircraft. Hammell’s perseverance led to the eventual development of the Flin Flon operations …