Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Just as the Nevada gold region is becoming the talk of the North American mining industry and the subject of a number of investment reports, Vancouver-based Continental Carlisle Douglas has published …

Mid-North Resources has optioned Granges Exploration’s Gurney gold mine property in Manitoba. Located east of Flin Flon, the Gurney mine produced 25,000 oz of gold and 71,000 oz of silver from 1937-19…

A 10,000-ft drilling program has started on the Courageous Lake property held by partners Gunnar Gold and Mill City Gold. Located in the Northwest Territories, the 7,333- acre property is located near…

X-Cal Resources (xcl:tse) has commenced a winter diamond drilling program on its Snowbird property near Fort St. James, B.C. The program will continue for approximately five weeks. Current plans call …

The third era of production from the historic Nickel Plate mine at Hedley is proving profitable for Mascot Gold Mines. The new British Columbia gold producer, owned 50% by Lacana Mining, expects to pr…

Earnings of $10.3 million (52 cents per share), before extraordinary items, for the nine months ending Sept 30, 1987, were recorded by Toronto-based Lacana Mining. Net earnings for the same period, af…

Diamond drilling is scheduled to get started before the end of January on the 9,300-acre Beaverdam gold property of Sunrise Metals Corp. in Nova Scotia, according to President Anthony Rich. This lies …

The story of an overnight success that took years of effort is one that’s well known in the mining industry. A discovery, for example, must appear to many outside the industry as something that happen…

Westfield Minerals has accelerated a 30,000-ft drilling program on its Big Island Lake massive sulphide discovery near Flin Flon, Man. Deep drilling is being concentrated on two massive sulphide zones…

Nortek Minerals is continuing drilling on claims in the Kirkland Lake area of northeastern Ontario held by Shenandoah Resources and Miller-Independence Mining. To date 13 holes have been drilled for a…

Exploration, to include ip surveys and diamond drilling, will start immediately to confirm and extend the mineralized zone discovered in the 1940s on the Goodfish property in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake c…

Canadian businesses, including mining, expect increased profits and capital spending in 1988 over 1987 levels, according to a survey undertaken by the federal Ministry of Regional Industrial Expansion…