Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Torene Gold Exploration of Halifax, N.S. has teamed up with coats-listed Exxeter Resources Corp. to explore for gold on three properties in Nevada. The properties include the former-producing Justice …

Just three months after Northgate Exploration sold its Chibougamau, Que., gold/copper mines to Australia-based Western Mining Corp., the Toronto company has bought itself back into its old stomping gr…

Since 1983 Malartic Hygrade Gold Mines (Canada) has taken pride in its record of common stock dividends, putting it among a select group of dividend-paying gold producers. It didn’t have to do much to…

Encouraging diamond drill results are reported by Gerle Gold at its McConnell Creek gold prospect 150 miles north of Smithers, B.C. All of the 16 holes drilled intersected the main shear zone over wid…

Turned into a mining house with no direct gold production of its own, Pamour Inc. looks like it is about to be transformed completely into a holding company. Pamour’s Australian parent, Giant Resource…

London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in Pound Sterling per tonne Date Feb. 16 Feb. 15 Feb. 12 Feb. 11 Feb. 10 Copper 1440-1443 1429-1432 1390-1395 1384-1385 1350-1355 Lea…

McGill University’s department of mining and metallurgical engineering will run three professional development seminars in April and May this year, the first of which will be held April 18-29, and wil…

The past year has been an exciting one for Equinox Resources. Cash flow from the Buckhorn mine enabled an 11- month payback on the company’s $1.7 million(US) acquisition cost. A gold discovery at Buck…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 92.00 cents -94.00 cents per lb. (Feb 4, 1988). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.14-$1.18 per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). BISMUTH: New York dealer $5.10-$5.30 per lb. (Jan 28, 1988). CADM…

The other day a large ad appeared in a major Canadian daily newspaper portraying a “prospector” (it was actually an ad for a computer firm) with all the usual visual cliches — a grizzled, bearded, ro…

The vitality of Canada’s exploration and mining industry depends heavily on the preservation of flow- through financing in a viable form. The tax reform measures announced by Finance Minister Michael …

Net earnings in 1987 for Dickenson Mines, which operates the Arthur W. White gold mine in northwestern Ontario, were $6.4 million (44 cents per share), compared with $4.59 million (39 cents per shar…