Articles by Northern Miner Staff

There aren’t many junior explorers around which can walk into an exploration property and expect to be in production within a year. But that is the position which Petromet Resources (TSE) and joint ve…

After having achieved gold production within three years of a public listing — a rare enough accomplishment for a junior mining company — Black Swan Gold Mines (VSE) now expects to pay back its shar…

Falconbridge Ltd. (TSE) says the adjusted subscription price for its common share purchase warrants, which expire July 27, 1989, will be $24.69, assuming the previously- announced $4.75 per share divi…

Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson has ruled that parties in a flow-through share agreement have up to 60 days after entering the agreement to set the price of the shares. This marks a change fro…

It’s now two down and counting for Canamax Resources’ (TSE) chief executive officer, John Hansuld, who has promised a new mine a year for five years. In fact he’s ahead of schedule with the official o…

ONTARIO Released From Escrow PPC Oil & Gas Cor. — 230,103 shs released. VANCOUVER Vishnu Res — gross proceeds rec $152,000. First Star Egy — opt exerc on 120,000 @ $0.3025. Killick Gold — gross pr…

In a small, modern office on Union Street in the downtown core here, Morton Gordon, chairman of Gordex Minerals (TSE) (and six other publicly- listed gold exploration companies), recounts his earlier …

Fleck Resources (VSE) says an extensive resampling and assaying program on more than 2,500 samples has been completed on its Marathon platinum group metals deposit near Marathon, Ont. Assays from the …

Second-quarter earnings by Lac Minerals (TSE) were 23% higher than for the same period in 1987, and more than twice those recorded during the first quarter of this year. The Toronto-based gold produce…

Cominco Ltd. (TSE) has concluded an agreement with Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE) to explore the latter’s Tom lead-zinc property in the Yukon. The Tom property is located on the Canol Road, close …

HUDSON RESOURCES — Peter Haladin acting as president and director due to the resignation of Joseph Balint.

Explorationists may soon have at their disposal a powerful new method of remotely detecting mineral deposits. The instrumentation is being developed by Skyborne Exploration Canada, which is 51%- held …