Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Promoters play a key role in getting junior mining ventures off the ground, but not all promoters come from the same mold as Vancouver’s flamboyant Murray Pezim. John Ternowesky, a Thunder Bay grain h…

Ore is now being hoisted up the newly commissioned 2,100-ft. shaft at the Trout Lake mine owned 29% by Granges (TSE), 44% by Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE), and 27% by the government of Manitoba. …

For mining companies, the increasingly rigorous environmental standards being established are creating unexpected costs. The larger, cash rich companies have been able to absorb these costs, but the i…

Recent drilling on the America Mine project owned and operated by BMR Gold (VSE) has further delineated the area where the company hopes to start open pit mining. The America Mine is in San Bernardino…

Based on the positive recommendations of an independent feasibility study, QPX Minerals (TSE) is looking to place its 100% owned QR gold deposit near Quesnel, B.C., into production. The study, done by…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US74.50- 75.50 cents per lb. (Jun. 7, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US82-84 cents per lb. (Apr. 19, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$3.65-3.75 per lb. (Jun. 7, 1990). CAD…

John Toffan, chairman of Prime’s partner Stikine Resources (TSE), may wind up better off financially though he may never be as recognized for his role in the Eskay Creek gold discovery as Prime Resour…

Nine recently completed drill holes on BMR Gold’s America Mine project in California have intersected more high-grade reserves in an area where initial open pit production is planned. One intersection…

A Toronto-based junior is hoping to make a pile of money through the sale of several products from a former producing iron ore district in the province’s northeast. La Fosse Platinum (TSE) is gearing …

The complicated restructuring under way at Corona (TSE) will involve several share exchanges among the shareholders of Corona, Prime Resources (VSE) and Stikine Resources (TSE). In a series of transac…

Canada’s mining industry is coming off a period that has been one of the most prosperous ever. It will be tough during the 1990s to match the combination of strong demand, rising prices and improved p…

News of a new zone discovery at the Grevet zinc property near Matagami, Que., helped propel the shares of VSM Exploration to $1.20, a gain of 35 cents, on a volume of more than 500,000 shares, for the…