Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Partners NSR Resources of Toronto and Nova-Cogesco Resources say they are just two months from a feasibility study at the Rand Malartic project in Fourniere Twp., Que. The joint venturers are executin…

Levesque Beaubien Inc. will test the financial waters “in the next little while,” to raise exploration funds for NovaGold Resources, The Northern Miner has learned. The geological consulting firm Watt…

Two new mineralized zones have been discovered and the potential exists for a third gold showing at the Union Mining-New Bidlamaque gold property at Val d’Or, Que., Mazarin Inc. reports. Mazarin, whic…

Prices for cadmium have taken off and reached record levels. Metals Week was recently quoting a U.S. dealer price range of $6.80- $7.10 per lb for the silver-white metal. A tight market is the primary…

After reporting losses of $27.7 million in 1986, bad luck continues to plague Toronto-based Sherritt Gordon Mines. Almost as soon as the company had written off the money-losing Ruttan copper-zinc min…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Mar 93.90 92.20 93.10 + 2.00 May 89.00 …

Having whetted his appetite for gold during unsuccessful bid for control of Newmont Mining Co., Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is back in the hunt for another major gold producer. The target this time …

Drilling by X-Cal Resources on the company’s Snowbird gold property near Fort St. James, B.C., has doubled the strike length of the main gold mineralized zone to more than 4,000 ft. The additional str…

Over-all it was a very good year for Pioneer Metals which reported net income for 1987 of approximately $4.1 million or 31 cents per share. This compares to earnings of $2.2 million or 27c a year ear…

Toronto-based Cliff Resources says it is progressing toward production at its Green Hill gold mine at the Olinghouse district, northwest of Reno, Nev. Financed with a project loan bridged to a gold lo…

As the dominant property-owner and principal mine-finder along the Carlin gold trend, near Elko, Nev., Newmont Gold has never felt the need to boast about its activities. A portfolio of 15 deposits an…

There comes a time in every explorationist’s life when he or she must enter upon private property. In most cases, no problems will be encountered, but every so often they are. The problem usually take…