Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-based American Barrick Resources (TSE) continued to benefit from a hedging program which has cushioned the company against the effects of stagnant gold prices. While the price of gold averaged…

An assortment of metals has drawn the recent attention of Roskill Information Services of London, including molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, rhenium, rare metals and rare earths. Molybdenum producers in…

Mining issues active Mining issues again fueled investment activity, with the mining and minerals index on the week jumping more than 154 pts during fairly heavy trading. Volume reached 11.9 million s…

Trading activity in Vancouver has picked up somewhat over the past week, much to the relief of the local investment community. Brokers say retail investors are beginning to re-appear on the scene afte…

Partners Consolidated TVX Mining Corp. (TSE) and Placer Dome Inc. (TSE) are planning to go ahead with the second stage of development at the La Coipa gold /silver mine in Chile. Toronto-based TVX, whi…

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. …