Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The following are excerpts from the autobiography of Franc R. Joubin, a renowned Canadian geologist who was recently inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. The book, entitled Not For Gold Alo…

The cost of mining in Ontario is about to go up a notch, and some of the province’s small gold mines will likely suffer most. Unwilling to follow the example set by their base metal brothers by inve…

Next week hundreds of the first-line representatives of the Canadian mining and metallurgical industry will meet in the historic city of Quebec. The annual convention of the cimm has become the outsta…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Apr 138.90 — 4.80 May 138.10 136.10 137.40 + 2.60 Jul 130.30 128.70 129.90…

VANCOUVER Digger Res Inc — 600,000 sold for gross $270,000. TSA Expls Ltd — gross proceeds rec $500,000. Agristar Inc — 4,000,000 offered @ $1.497 per sh. Int’l Brace Res — 600,000 shs offered @ 4…

Citadel Gold Mines (TSE) has received approval from The Toronto Stock Exchange allowing the company to proceed with a private placement of first preferred shares valued at $5.5 million. The shares are…

I recently inherited 100 shares of Orenada Gold Mines purchased in 1945, and I would like to know if these shares have any current value. If they are of value, how can I redeem them? R.M., Leamington,…

A follow-up drill program is planned by American Platinum (VSE) on the company’s Angle Bay platinum group metals (PGM) project, near Lac des Iles, Ont. The four-to-five-hole program, expected to begin…

Five provinces may have thought the 5-year Mineral Development Agreement (MDA) they signed with the federal government in 1984 expired at the end of March, but in reality the agreements have a sixth y…

Nobody knows with certainty, but everybody is interested in the possibility. If war comes, what then? In the first instance, it would be recognized that such a war would not break on an unprepared wor…

Contrary to what was was reported recently (N.M., March 20/89), Calgary-based Baloil Resources (ASE) intersected 8.8 ft of grade 0.13 oz gold per ton in drill hole DDH-1 during a 2,400-ft program at i…

A $10-million offer for its Mt. Hundere zinc-lead-silver project in the Yukon was too good to be refused by Toronto-based Canamax Resources (TSE). After outlining 5.2 million tonnes of grade 18.5% com…