Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Low gold prices, high interest rates, brokerage month-end and general pre-budget jitters were keeping investors on the sidelines here at press time, as was the case in most equity markets in Canada. A…

A chapter in Hemlo history appears to have come to a close. Teck Corp. (TSE) and Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) have terminated their option to earn a 100% interest in several key claims owned by Internationa…

Tri Pacific Resources has changed its transfer agent to Pacific Corporate Services.

“Vaino Ronka is the only guy I know who can follow you into a revolving door and come out ahead of you.” — Alex Herz, Ronka’s business partner. When geophysicists think of fixed-wing airborne elect…

Shareholders of Denison Mines (TSE) heard a familiar story at the company’s annual meeting in Toronto recently. More than 400 shareholders filled the concert hall of Toronto’s Royal York Hotel to hear…

INTERNATIONAL SHASTA RESOURCES — Edward W. Craft appointed manager, project development.

Canada;s `muck-chasers’ meet once a year to swap ideas. Here’s what’s hot. Chasing muck is no picnic. And it’s becoming even more demanding now that base metals prices are on the upswing and more min…

Not one but two unmanned security huts greet visitors arriving at Placer Dome’s Endako molybdenum mine, the last one proclaiming: “All visitors report here.” It too is empty, but at least it has a tel…

The International Nickel Co. announces the beginning of work on a new large- sized shaft at the Garson mine. The cost of the shaft, hoisting equipment and complementary surface plant and structures is…

The Silbak Premier silver-gold Tdeposit, 21 km north of Stewart, TB.C., has mineable, open-pit reserves of 5.9 million tonnes grading 2.16 g gold and 80.23 g silver per tonne. The Silbak Premier will …

Although the price wasn’t disclosed, Golden Nevada Resources (TSE) and Bethlehem Resources Corp. (TSE) have signed a letter of intent to purchase a 100% interest in the Goldstream deposit and related …

It has often been said, live for today, not tomorrow. Or that we think of the past with regret and the future with fear. Or never look back — you’ll die of remorse. In other words, when we look back …