Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Trading in gold stocks was brisk during the week ended Oct. 23 as bullion prices remained strong in the wake of falling crude oil prices. By presstime Oct. 24, the yellow metal was fixed at US$371 per…

A drilling program on the Spectrum property in the northern Iskut area of northwestern British Columbia is returning good grades and widths. The program is part of an earn-in by Columbia Gold Mines wh…

Partners NovaGold Resources (TSE) and Costigan Gold (COATS) have made a base metal discovery on their Sewell Brook property, near Plaster Rock, N.B. All four holes on the previously undrilled property…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) Oct 132.20 128.50 132.20 + 6.70 Nov 127.50 124.00 128.15 + 9.30 Dec 122.80 117.60 122.65 + 9.30 SILVER (in US cen…

Bradsue Resources Ltd. — 400,000 shs offered @ 55 cents per sh.

Preliminary assays have been reported by Waddy Lake Resources (TSE) from the first 14 holes in a recently completed 29-hole drill program on the company’s Komis gold deposit in northern Saskatchewan. …

The first eight holes drilled by Pegasus Gold (TSE) on the Century Gold property in Idaho returned mixed results, the most impressive being a 20-ft. intersection grading 1.13 oz. gold per ton. As oper…

Robert Johnson appointed president succeeding James Watts who remains as a director.

Yorkton Securities Inc. appointed financial adviser.

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US81.50- 85.50 cents per lb. (Oct. 18, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US80-83 cents per lb. (Sep. 6, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Sep. 13, 1990). CA…

Carlisle Trost elected director.

Beginning to make its mark on the Canadian exploration scene, Battle Mountain Canada, a unit of Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE), recently started drilling a new gold zone in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake mining…