Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Riding the crest of a base metals price increase, Brunswick Mining & Smelting (TSE) (as operator) is about to turn a cash- draining property into a cash generator. It’s not official yet — approval fr…

Exploration work on Vedron Ltd.’s (TSE) Timmins property is now geared to defining mineable reserves that are easily accessed by the current underground ramp, the company says. Until mid-September las…

A funding agreement has been concluded with 1988 (No 3) Mintax Mineral Ltd. Partnership under which Mintax will be issued flow- through shares at an aggregate subscription price of $1.5 million, McAd…

At meetings held in Vancouver and in Denver, Colo., shareholders of associated companies Gold Texas Resources (VSE), Crown Resource Corp. (NASDAQ) and Gold Capital Corp. voted in favor of a reorganiza…

At the annual meeting, held recently in Toronto, shareholders got a first-hand look at some of South American Goldfields’ (COATS) ambitious gold projects under way in the jungles of Guyana. President …

Government plays an ever-increasing role in how business operates in Canada, whether it’s primary industries like mining or any other commercial endeavor. But does it matter who sits at the head of th…

Vista Mines (TSE) has completed a 10,000-ton bulk sampling program from its Rio gold deposit in Saskatchewan. The sample yielded an average grade of 0.12 oz gold per ton. Milling was performed at Vist…

VANCOUVER Benz Gold Res — gross proceeds rec $112,500. Golden Sky Res — gross proceeds rec $133,400. Sleeping Gold Ltd — 600,000 offered @ 43 cents per sh. Stag Expls Ltd — gross proceeds rec $19…

The Federal Government has decided not to back Neptune Resources’ (TSE) $150 million Colomac gold project with a $15-million working capital loan guarantee. After taking a close look at the Northwest …

World Gold Mines is a 2-volume worldwide reference of gold mines, deposits and discoveries in 57 countries. Also includes a classification of deposits, characteristics and descriptions for over 600 ac…

Assuming it goes through, the proposed acquisition by Homestake Mining (NYSE) of Esso Minerals Canadian exploration and development properties (N.M., Jan 30/89) would “represent a major re-alignment o…

Several prospective EM targets, the most important of which appears to coincide with the Creek shear zone, have been uncovered on the Uskik Lake property 130 km northeast of La Ronge, Sask., Vista Min…