Articles by Northern Miner Staff

With its Golden Pond mine in Quebec’s Casa Berardi area almost producing at capacity, 1989 should be a good year for Golden Knight Resources (TSE). At the company’s annual meeting in Vancouver recentl…

Another lengthy gold intercept has been returned from the Eskay Creek project of Calpine Resources (VSE) and Consolidated Stikine Silver (VSE) in northern British Columbia. A 10-hole, second phase exp…

By mid-1989, Viceroy Resource Corp. (TSE) expects to receive the final permits to begin construction of a 8,000- ton-per-day heap leach operation on its 100%-owned Castle Mountain property in San Bern…

When John C. White was still at the lower levels of the pecking order at the Madsen Red Lake mine in the late 1950s, he and veteran geologist Doc Bishop would occasionally meet in the mine staff house…

ATHENA GOLD — Kenneth H. Wright appointed a director and president. People CANADIAN UNITED MINERALS – Stanley R. Ford and Joseph A. Charland appointed to the board of directors succeeding Brian Eamor…

The Canadian Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) says that 1988 saw it embark on a plan to change the thrust and composition of many of its programs. The new plan focused on fostering cl…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market $1.11-$1.12 per lb. (Dec 22, 1988). ANTIMONY: New York dealer 96 -$1.01 per lb. (Dec 22, 1988). BISMUTH: New York dealer $6.55-$6.75 per lb. (Dec 22, 1988). CADMIUM: New York …

With 1988 coming to an end, the Vancouver market trend can only be described as “sideways” which is probably understandable. Throughout the year Prime Group companies have pretty well dominated tradin…

Pacific Trans-Ocean Resources (ASE) President Frank Agar and a number of the company’s leading executives face an uncertain future following a recent bid by Belmoral Mines (TSE) of Toronto for the tro…

USMX Inc. (NASDAQ) of Lakewood, Colo., reports a net loss for the 3-month period ended Sept 30 of $252,000(US) or 2 per share on revenue of $1.81 million. For the same period a year earlier the compa…

For those environmentalists who think mining is nothing more than a blight on the land doing untold damage, consider these numbers provided by the government of Ontario, the country’s most active mine…

Flow-through financing for mining exploration may not be as much in the news as it once was in other parts of Canada, but in Quebec the investment scheme is alive and kicking. Whereas in the other pro…