Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The fate of a proposed recapitalization plan for Inco Ltd. (TSE) will be decided Dec 9 at a special meeting of shareholders. The $1-billion(US) recapitalization involves the payment of a special cash …

A drill hole (No 88-27) intersected 57.4 ft averaging 0.17 oz gold per ton at a vertical depth of 1,250 ft at the northeastern Ontario joint- venture Harker-Holloway project of Noranda Inc. (TSE) and …

Within five years, 25% of revenues at Cameco — a Canadian mining and energy company — are expected to come from non-uranium sources, The Northern Miner learned during a series of wide-ranging interv…

What had been touted as a major new gold discovery in southwestern Idaho appears to have fallen short of expectations. Indeed, investors greeted the latest results from War Eagle Mining (VSE) with a m…

With all the results in now from a 10,000-ft drill program at the Canuc Resources (TSE) property in the Northwest Territories, Orofino Resources (TSE) is contemplating its next move. Orofino can earn …

Surface exploration has been completed by Golden Tanager Resources (COATS) on its two Pickle Lake area gold properties. On the company’s 84-claim North Caribou property, located 166 km north of Pickle…

Loans worth a total of $23.5 million from Echo Bay Mines (TSE) will be converted into common shares, Muscocho Explorations (TSE), Flanagan McAdam Resources (TSE) and McNellen Resources (TSE) report. T…

Reasonable stability for base- metal prices is expected at least for the next few months, and possibly for the next year or two, says the chief executive officer of the Mining Association of Canada. G…

Galactic Resources (TSE) is teaming up with another Vancouver company, Can-Pacific Rare Earths, to conduct exploration in China. The new company Galactic Resources China, will attempt to strengthen th…

Gold production by Cambior Inc. (TSE) for the first nine months of 1988 increased 42% compared with the same period last year, the company reports. Total production to Sept 30 was 140,685 oz; during t…

Now that the O.B. silver mine at Greenwood, B.C. is safely past the start-up phase, Viscount Resources (VSE) says it is looking at acquiring other proven undeveloped deposits in the area. The company …

Gordon Leliever, former president and major shareholder of Monte Carlo Gold Mines (ASE) has sold his control block of Monte Carlo shares to a group of investors headed by Robert Salna of Richmond Hill…