Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Prices for sulphur on international markets have declined amidst contractural differences between Morocco and India over the cost of phosphoric acid. Morocco imports sulphur to mix with its naturally …

Additional work has been recommended for Trader Resource Corp.’s (TSE) Ronnoco gold property near Timmins, Ont. Dean Rogers, geological consultant to Trader, concluded that an additional $500,000 prog…

Nevada Goldfields Corp. (TSE) has shut down its Kingston gold mine in Nevada. Citing lower grades and the failure of exploration to define additional reserves, Nevada Goldfields was forced to close th…

Ontario Premier David Peterson may not like the proposed Amax Inc. (NYSE) takeover of Falconbridge Ltd. (TSE), but he may be powerless to stop it. Peterson, in Timmins, Ont., recently, was asked about…

Plans to spend $10 million to expand its coinage facilities at Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., have been announced by Sherritt Gordon (TSE). The major expenditure will be on the nickel-bonded-steel coinage …

Since production began in 1983, Placer Dome’s Detour Lake mine has turned out more than half a million oz of gold. Pictured here with the gold bars that con tain the 500,000th oz are (left to right) T…

A bulk sampling program completed on the former-producing Simkar property near Val d’Or, Que, yielded an average recovered gold grade of 0.217 oz gold per ton. Partners Louvicourt Gold Mines (COATS) a…

It’s hard to imagine an issue that rings as truly Canadian as the impending sale of Falconbridge Ltd. to U.S.-based Amax Inc. It has all the elements of the traditional struggles between commerce and …

Although some in the mining industry find little merit in Noranda Inc. (TSE) making a takeover bid for Amax Inc. (NYSE), the acquisition still makes economic sense, according to Eric Zaunscherb, base …

Strike Minerals (COATS) has acquired 103 claims in Baden Twp., Ont. The claims are adjacent to a 28-claim block already owned by the company. An airborne geophysical survey has been completed.

Toronto-based Ego Resources (TSE) has optioned a 17-claim gold- silver property near Brislane Lake, N.W.T., from Initiative Explorations (COATS). The agreement gives Ego the right to earn a 100% undiv…

An ongoing program of step-out and infill drilling by Calpine Resources (VSE) is continuing to return encouraging results from the 21 zone of the Eskay Creek project in northwestern British Columbia. …