Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A $70 million construction program will be undertaken by Highland Valley Copper in British Columbia to relocate two mills to a site adjacent to the Lornex Mining milling complex. The program is expect…

Hourly employees at Lac Minerals’ Bousquet mine near Malartic, Que., have voted 80% in favour of accepting a new three-year collective agreement, the company said recently. The 262 employees represent…

An agreement has been worked out between Rambo Exploration of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and To ronto-based Royex Gold Mining whereby the latter may acquire a 50% interest in Rambo’s 35-claim gold prospect …

AGIP Canada, the wholly-owned affiliate of AGIP SpA of Italy, one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies, is taking on a more aggressive role in the Candian mining industry. Although the company…

Earnings of $3.5 million (11 cents per share) were recorded by Belmoral Mines of Toronto during 1987, compared with net income of $1.4 million (5 cents per share) for the year before. Revenues for th…

Two Hughes-Lang companies active in northwestern Quebec, D’Or Val Mines and Perron Gold Mines, have agreed in principle to amalgamate. D’Or Val operates a producing gold mine near Val d’Or, while Perr…

Consumption of mica in plastics increased strongly during the first half of the 1980s with the steady development of methods of using fillers to reduce costs and improve performance, Roskill Informati…

I read, with considerable concern, the ill-advised reference to flow-through funding in E. A. Schiller’s column in your Jan 11/88 issue. I particularly disliked the term “fairy godfather” as applied t…

A statement of reserves and capital costs for Cal Graphite’s recently acquired gold property near Magdelana de Kino in the Sonora province of Mexico could not be substantiated by formal engineering re…

A bid by St. Genevieve Resources of Montreal to buy up the outstanding balance of shares of Louvem Mines it does not already own has been announced. St. Genevieve holds an approximate 56% interest in …

The tonnage calculation of the D8 north, D8 south and D9 zones, following the 1987 drilling program at the Delta project in northern Quebec, stands at about one million tonnes of possible and potentia…

Armed with a private placement of $4 million, Douglas Nicholson is back in business. The well-known ex-mining analyst and architect of the successful MFC Mining Finance Corp., has started another vers…