Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Quintette Coal Chairman Bruce McConkey has asked the British Columbia Court of Appeal to overturn a Supreme Court judgment relating to prices paid for its product by the company’s Japanese customers. …

Murray Pezim and other insiders of Prime Resources Group (VSE) have accepted a sweetened offer from Corona (TSE) for their combined holding of 5.6 million Prime shares. As a result of the recent agree…

A sampling and geophysical survey is set to begin on the Goldstream and Brew properties owned jointly by Bethlehem Resources (TSE) and Goldnev Resources (VSE). The Goldstream property, 60 miles north …

Garth McRae elected to the board.

Drilling programs are being conducted on two porphyry copper deposits near the Island Copper mine, operated by BHP-Utah Mines, near Port Hardy, B.C. Drilling on the Expo property by Moraga Resources (…

Ken Ralls appointed to the board of directors.

Victor Hollister appointed to the board of directors.

With the adoption of an environmental policy in 1989, Canada’s mining industry made a commitment to maintain a high standard of environmental protection. The policy consists of six principles which me…

Nickel- copper producer Falconbridge Ltd. has made a move to tackle head on the biggest issue of the 1990s, the environment. Perhaps best known for its Sudbury, Ont.-based nickel mining operations, Fa…

George Neumann died recently at his residence in Arnprior, Ont. He was 74. In 1940, Neumann graduated from Queens University with a 0000,0600 B.Sc. degree in metallurgical engineering. After a stint i…

Asarco (NYSE) will increase its domestic selling price of electrolytic copper cathodes by 5 cents to $1.30 per lb. Asarco is one of the world’s leading integrated producers of nonferrous metal includi…

Laker Resources Ltd. (LAK: VSE) has changed its name to Videogram International Corp. with no consolidation of capital. Pacific Corporate Services is the transfer agent.