Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Calgary-based Marker Resources has merged with Varna Resources to form a new amalgamated corporation called Varna Gold Inc. The new company will hold working interests in approximately 400,000 net acr…

Toronto-based Canamax Resources has reached an agreement with National Westminster Bank of Canada to finance construction and development of Canamax’s three new gold mines. They include the company’s …

..Nothing so gives the illusion of intelligence as personal association with large sums of money. John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist With so much wealth erased during the past two weeks as …

After four years of substantial shortfall, it appears the global copper market is set to revert to oversupply in 1988 as production surges ahead, Shearson Lehman Brothers reports in its Annual Review …

Teeshin Resources has won an arbitration hearing which allows the company to become the operator of the Dome Mountain gold project in British Columbia. Teeshin will be replacing Canadian United Minera…

Output of 50,000 oz gold is expected during each of the first two years of operation of Perron Gold Mines’ Sleeping Giant mine in northwestern Quebec which is expected to go into production early in 1…

An option to earn a 40% interest in Kerr Addison Mines’ Macho- Rouleau property in Urban and Barry twps. in northwestern Quebec has been acquired by Beaufield Resources. Under the terms of the agreeme…

Drilling with two machines is being resumed on the Richardson Lake gold discovery of Golden Terrace Resources, Garry K. Smith, the company’s geologist and newly appointed president, tells The Northern…

Spot closing prices in Pound Sterling per tonne Date Oct. 27 Oct. 26 Oct. 23 Oct. 22 Oct. 21 Copper 1192-1194 1175-1178 1215-1220 1169-1170 1175-1177 Lead 353-354 350-35…

Gold values of 0.62 oz gold per ton and 0.31 oz were obtained from grab samples taken to check an earlier set of sampling results from Chesbar Resources’ 8-claim, optioned property in Yeo Twp. in nort…

The fact that Imperial Metals Corp. was after Westmin Resources’ Blue Moon project has probably been one of Vancouver’s worst kept secrets over the years. But it became very apparent in May, 1986, whe…

An Australian company, Balmoral Resources nl, has agreed to purchase the majority of Canada Tungsten Mining’s interest in Vancouver-based Queenstake Resources. The shareholding has been for sale for s…