Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Once again, Prime group companies dominated trading activity on the Vancouver Stock Exchange for the week ended April 24. Even through Eastern equity markets are still reeling from the Bank of Canada’…

Roman Corp., the Toronto-based holding company that owns 25.4% of Denison Mines (TSE), reported earnings before extraordinary items, of $2.3 million or 24 cents per share in 1989, compared with a loss…

A recently completed drill hole on Flag Resources’ Wolf Lake property in MacKelcan Twp., 30 miles northeast of Sudbury, Ont., has intersected 43 ft. grading 0.32 oz. gold per ton in the vicinity of so…

The 1980s were highly successful years for Conwest Exploration. Over the 10-year period from 1980-89, the company reported total operating profits of $311 million, earned a total of $120 million in ne…

An independent reserve estimate and metallurgical report has been received by Stratabound Minerals (ASE) for its CNE base metal deposit, 25 miles southwest of Bathurst, N.B. The reserve estimate, calc…

Some exploration results reported recently from Vezza and Douay townships in northwestern Quebec have persuaded Vancouver-based oil and metals explorer Total Energold (TSE) to move into the region. Ac…

I was quite disturbed with your editorial “Showdown at the VSE” (April 16/90). I publish one of the few investment newsletters in the U.S. devoted to the Canadian investment scene. The very reasons yo…

At a recent public hearing, the Ontario and Alberta securities commissions ruled that Muscocho Explorations (TSE), Flanagan McAdam Resources (TSE) and McNellen Resources (TSE) be exempted from issuer …

Commercial production on the Nighthawk Lake property near Timmins, Ont., will be under way within two years, according to a recent agreement between Giant Yellowknife Mines (TSE) and property owner Pa…

The president of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan has a 5-year contract which pays him $700,000 per year. Details of C.E. Childers’ salary agreement with the Saskatchewan government were recently leaked t…

Management of Hope Brook Gold (TSE) is under heavy pressure this year to bring about a turnaround in operations at the company’s problem-plagued gold mine on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. Last …

This season Fairfield Minerals (TSE) plans to spend about $1.1 million to further explore its prospective 160-sq.-mile landholding in the Okanagan district of southern British Columbia. The bulk of th…