Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A Canadian subsidiary of Asarco (NYSE) recently signed an option agreement to earn a 60% interest in 71 claims owned by Asquith Resources (COATS) in the Shining Tree area of northern Ontario. Asarco c…

A number of directors and officers of Seven Mile Group (VSE) have resigned pending a hearing before the British Columbia Securities Commission scheduled for July 6. Maurice Hamelin, former president, …

Martin Reynolds, vice-president and director of Nesbitt Thomson Deacon Inc. re-elected to the position of chairman of the board of directors for the 1990/91 fiscal year.

A family holding company controlled by Dundee Capital Chairman Ned Goodman has acquired more than one million shares and more than a half-million warrants in Dundee, an investment management company k…

Billiton Resources, a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, recently made an offer to buy the 32.9% interest in the Hanson Lake polymetallic deposit owned by Trimin Resources (TSE). The terms …

Just months after Paul Girard resigned as president, Cheni Gold Mines (TSE) has announced the resignation of Malcolm Taschereau, chairman of the company’s board of directors and executive committee. E…

MVP BGR Central Capital Net value $10.88 $5.52 $0.34 Price $9.375 $5.500 $0.20 Discount %13.83% %0.4% 41.2% Value $64,786,475.29 $92,533,650 N/A…

Federal government support for the project Lithoprobe will increase by 50%, bringing the amount to $18.9 million over the next three years. Lithoprobe is the largest multidisciplinary study of the ear…

Blackdome Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of MinVen Gold (TSE), recently entered into an agreement to acquire a group of four claims known as the Elizabeth property, 19 miles south of the Blackdome …

James Kermeen and Gary Drummond appointed to the board of directors; Raymond Maret resigned from the board.

Michael Emery appointed assistant to the vice-president, smelting and refining.

Investors waiting for a rise in the price of gold might want to turn their attention to an expensive member of the platinum group of metals. Rhodium, used mainly in the manufacture of catalytic conver…