Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Aramis Ventures — 500,000 sold for gross $225,000 Golden Pick Res — 250,000 com & 250,000 flow-through offered @ 50 cents per sh Mad River Res — 670,000 offered @ 33 cents per sh Southern Cross G…

Already a gold producer through its minor interest in the Buckhorn mine in Nevada, Equinox Resources (TSE) has secured an option to buy 100% of the Van Stone lead-zinc mine in Washington State. The fo…

Brunner Canada, manufacturer of drill bits and accessories, has named R. T. Legault as its new national sales manager. Legault has more than 30 years experience in mining and related industries, part…

The southwestern and northeastern parts of the Schreiber areas, northern Ontario, are reviewed in great detail in reports just published by the Ontario Department of Mines.

The possibility that the Russians may try to seize the big metal mine and plants in northern Finland, which International Nickel has been developing, has cropped up again. The Petsamo nickel mine, con…

When he was plucked last year from his job as manager of mineral exploration for Western Mining and sent to Toronto to run the Australian company’s new North American mining wing, Jim Laylor’s mandate…

Metallurgists at the Kidd Creek Mmine in Timmins, Ont., have been watching the automotive industry in Japan very closely. Not because they buy a n ew car every year, but because that particular Japane…

I hold a stock certificate dated March 14, 1975 for 44 shares of a company called Auric Resources, formerly Consolidated Nicholson. Can you please give me a status report on Auric Resources. J.A. Thor…

Two generalizations apply to the total Hemlo orebody. First, the grade decreases going from east to west, so that the David Bell mine (owned jointly by Teck Corp. and Corona Corp.) has the highest ave…

Perched between the Dumagami mine/mill complex to the east and Bousquet No. 1 headframe to the west on Preissac Road, north of Cadillac, Que., is the new Bousquet No. 2 headframe. Saddled with the tas…

We write as solicitors to Efrem Specogna regarding your feature, “Debating the Discoveries,” in the July, 1988, issue. Specogna, along with Giovanni Trinco, did the initial prospecting and, in 1970, m…

Squeezing more gold out of old tailings isn’t easy, but LAC Minerals has found a way. It took a full year, but the company finally has ironed the wrinkles out of its tailings retreatment operation in …