Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A $40 million(US) write-down has been taken by Galactic Resources (TSE) for its Summitville mine in Colorado. And Galactic chairman, Robert Friedland, is now downplaying the operation’s importance in …

Now in its first year as a gold producer, Starrex Mining (TSE) recently reported a third quarter profit of $619,116 or 16 per share. A 35% joint venture partner with Uranerz Exploration and SMDC at t…

The Canadian Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) has issued a call for papers and has announced a conference for Nov 15-17, 1989 in Timmins, Ont., titled “conference on surface crown pil…

The fight has been going on for years but Canadian-United Minerals (VSE) may at long last have the upper hand in its dispute with Teeshin Resources (VSE) over the Dome Mountain project northeast of Sm…

Walter Guppy has probably seen more of Vancouver Island than any other prospector alive today and he’s recounted his experiences in a paperback called WetCoast Ventures: mine finding on Vancouver Isla…

Striking employees of Gibraltar Mines’ (TSE) copper mine and mill near Williams Lake, B.C. accepted an offer by the company to settle a 6 – month work stoppage. Art Brown, mine manager, said the propo…

Partners Westmin Resources (TSE), Tanqueray Resources (VSE) and Estaurum Mines (ASE) continue to receive encouraging results from drilling on their Little Stull gold property in Manitoba. Results from…

A definitive agreement is expected within 3-4 weeks which will see a 78% interest in the Summit gold property in New Mexico go to Biron Bay Resources (TSE) and Steeple Rock Mining in exchange for expl…

Not as volatile in the marketplace or as expensive as its sister- metal platinum, palladium nevertheless has achieved a following which is keeping its supply more or less in balance with demand. Tendi…

More money is being spent on rock mechanics research than ever before. The Mining Research Directorate in Ontario estimates there is $100 million being spent in Canada this year and about $20 million…

Recently, Robert Stanley, chairman and president of The International Nickel Co. of Canada, said there are more than 8,000 standard alloys of which some 2,300 contain nickel. Such is the broad field i…

Ontario gold production made a gain of $8,156,735 in the first nine months of 1938, compared with the first three quarters of 1937. The amount produced in the period was $75,220,595. The Porcupine bel…