Articles by Northern Miner Staff

While other Alberta-listed exploration companies remain stranded in the $1 to $5 range, Borealis Exploration of Calgary cruised along last year at around $20. Without so much as an oz of production, t…

Two drill results reported in the Dec 28 issue from Golden Zone Development’s gold-silver prospect in Alaska were incorrect. Hole 20C intersected 59 ft of 0.172 oz gold per ton (not 49 ft as reported)…

Work is gearing up at Cal Graphite Corp.’s Graphite Lake property near Huntsville, Ont., with production scheduled to begin late in October. About one-third of the mining and milling equipment has bee…

A 50% interest in two properties totalling 55 claims located west of Missanabie in northern Ontario has been acquired by Canreos Minerals (1980) of Toronto from Armistice Resources of Toronto for $200…

Lead Industries Association — Jerome F. Smith appointed executive director succeeding Werner T. Meyer who has resigned.

With a production value totalling $400 million from placer and hardrock operations, 1987 can only be described as an outstanding year for the Yukon Territories. Riding on a wave of flow-through share …

An option has been acquired by Lake Ponask Gold which gives the company the right to earn a 50% interest in a property in Jamaica. Known as the Hope mine property, the ground was mined for lead in the…

Described by some as the most significant gold find in the Yukon in many years, the Grew Creek discovery of Noranda Exploration and Golden Nevada Resources appears to be getting bigger. The latest res…

A complicated legal dispute over the ownership of a valuable gold mine can make valuation judgments on the companies concerned a difficult business. But when the legal battle is inadvertantly combined…

A well-financed tse listing which is currently developing a gold deposit in Ontario’s Hislop area, Goldpost Resources has now acquired a long-term lease on a former gold producing property in Idaho. T…

O A Montreal doctor has scored what may be regarded in mineralogy circles as one of this century’s major coups. After obtaining an option to buy one of the world’s finest privately-owned mineral colle…

Underground diamond drilling by Northair Mines at its Willa property in southeastern British Columbia is continuing to obtain good gold values, President Donald A. McLeod reports. Hole 87-312 was dril…