Articles by Northern Miner Staff

With two years of life remaining at its Picacho mine in California, Glamis Gold (TSE) hopes to increase gold production to nearly five times the current rate by 1990. Property acquisitions and joint v…

Placer gold mining operations will continue to represent Queenstake Resources’ (TSE) principal source of cash flow in the next few years. But revenues from hardrock production could also figure promin…

Glencairn Explorations (ASE) has received encouraging results from a diamond exploration program in Brazil. The company is funding a $213,000(US) exploration effort on the Feijao Cru placer diamond pr…

A better-than-expected further decline in the United States trade deficit has brought euphoria into North America’s leading financial districts. The April figure of $9.89 billion compared to March’s $…

The Society of Engineering & Mineral Exploration Geophysicists (SEMEG) is presenting the second annual Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems at the Color…

With production expected from its Kettle and Key properties in Ferry Cty., Wash., in the next few years, Denver-based Crown Resource Corp. (NASDAQ) could be profitable by 1990, says Mark E. Jones, pre…

A large open pit operation is expected to get under way late next year at the Bogosu concession in Ghana, West Africa, where a consortium led by Toronto-based Sikaman Gold Resources (TSE), is in the e…

I recently invested in Noranda Gold Resources through Crown Securities of Costa Rica. I was wondering if you could provide me with information concerning the quality of Noranda Gold and the efficiency…

It had been a relatively quiet market for some time and bullion traders at Shearson Lehman Hutton were awaiting the release by the U.S. government of the consumer price index (CPI) for April. Earlier …

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Jun 111.60 110.00 111.50 + 17.10 Jul 107.00 102.70 106.50 + 15.20 Sep 97.50 93.80 …

An option to acquire a 51% interest in the Belleterre mine property in Guillet Twp., in northwestern Quebec, has been granted to Cogema Canada by Riverton Resources (VSE) for $2 million. Riverton purc…

Significant drill results reported by Camreco Inc. (TSE) at its northwestern Ontario gold claims have led to preliminary feasibility studies which will look at the possibility of re-opening of the gol…