Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Exploration work has resumed at Newhawk Gold Mines’ Sulphurets project north of Stewart, B.C. The company has a 60% interest in the property and Granduc Mines 40% Newhawk President Donald A. McLeod ex…

Gold has tumbled sharply in recent days. The absence of any obvious inflationary pressure in the U.S., a firmer U.S. dollar and the market’s perception that the U.S. economy may be slipping into reces…

A joint venture agreement between Chutine Resources and Ateba Mines gives the latter the right to earn a 50% interest in Chutine’s Stover gold- silver property near Missanabie, Ont. Abeta must spend $…

An additional 909,100 shares of Wharf Resources have been purchased by Dickenson Mines of Toronto, boosting the latter’s holding in the former to about 5.7 million shares, or 32.8% Dickenson, which re…

The Tillicum Mountain gold property of Esperanza Explorations should see production early in 1989. The property is near Burton in southeastern British Columbia. The project, to cost an estimated $5 mi…

The significance of gold in the reserves held by central banks is often overlooked. This may be because these gold bullion holdings are often included in official statistics at artificially low valuat…

Australian mining company Ashton Operations Inc., an affiliate of Ashton Mining Ltd., has acquired an option to earn an interest in claims held by Freewest Resources. Ashton can earn a 65% interest in…

A relative newcomer to Nova Scotia gold action is Midas Minerals. President Karl Skobe has said that although the company is based in Toronto, its largest investor base is in the Sudbury area of Ontar…

Another gold property in Halifax Cty., N.S. will likely start pouring gold at a commercial rate July 1, 1988. Toronto-listed Coxheath Gold Holdings announced at its annual meeting in Halifax this week…

Outokumpu Equipment of Canada has been appointed the agent in Canada for the industrial line of products manufactured by Berthold of West Germany. ** Products include density gauges, level measurement…

Continuing the remarkable forward trend which has been in progress for several years, Buffalo Ankerite Gold Mines, in 1937, marked up increases of 120 per cent in net profits after all charges. The co…

High-pressure slurry pumps, manufactured by geho Pumps of the Netherlands, are now available in Canada. The company has established an office in Schofield, Wis. and has formed a new company — geho Pu…