Articles by Northern Miner Staff

It won’t be an easy task but the metals industry can fight back in the marketplace. “Yes, but it’ll be tough,” George Jewett, of the Toronto consulting firm Jewett & Associates, told a luncheon meetin…

The boards of directors of Canadian Premium Resource Corp. and Mahogany Minerals have approved an amalgamation ratio for the merger of the two companies. An independent consultant has placed a thresho…

Drilling by Four Seasons Resources failed to intersect economic gold mineralization on the company’s Beaver Dam property in Nova Scotia. The 2-phase drill program tested sections of the main slate hor…

ONTARIO PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION — M. R. Hayhow elected president for 1987.

Lacana Mining says it has completed the sale of five million common shares, represented by deposit receipts, at $12 each. The proceeds have been used to reduce the debt incurred from Lacana’s recent p…

Madeleine Mines has received a commitment from the Ontario government to conditionally contribute up to $25,000 per kilometre for an access road to its Lac Des Iles project in northwestern Ontario. Cl…

I have had the article by Keith McCandlish (Odds ‘n Sods, Feb 23/87) on coal exploration in Indonesia pointed out to me. Only the threat, at the close of the article, that there might be more of this …

A one-day seminar, providing an update and overview of the taxation of the Canadian mining industry, will be offered May 5 at the Four Seasons Hotel (Yorkville), Toronto. Topics to be discussed includ…

Noranda Inc. and Placer Development both admit they have an interest in the possibility of buying the shares of gold-producer Dome Mines held by Dome Petroleum, but neither Noranda nor Placer appear t…

Underground development work has begun at Newhawk Gold Mines Sulphurets project north of Stewart, B.C. Freight and equipment have been transported to the site for a $5 million 2-phase program, the fir…

The decision by Serem Ltd. to proceed with its Lawyers project, north of Smithers, B.C., will effect a number of properties in the Toodoggone area, including the Mets project of Manson Creek Resource…

Three gold exploration companies had trading of their shares halted this week in Vancouver and Toronto for a rather unusual reason. It appears that over the weekend, a Toronto-based penny stock invest…