Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Citadel Gold Mines remains busy with exploration work on four properties near Wawa, Ont. At the former producing Surluga gold mine, Citadel is drifting and performing underground drilling. This work h…

I am interested in finding out more about the copper staking rush of the 1960s and the exploration camp, Coppermine River Ltd. at Hope Lake, near Coppermine, N.W.T. Specifically: the number of claims …

Chevron Minerals will be spending approximately $700,000 this year on B.Y.G. Natural Resources’ Mt. Nansen gold property in the Yukon. The expenditure is almost identical to last year’s budget which w…

Active trading on the Montreal Exchange led to new highs during the past week before the exchange’s portfolio index slipped back slightly. Mining issues continued to be among the active stocks, with t…

Yesterday the Vancouver market roared as investors stampeded into speculative issues and the index broke yet another record. For the first time ever, it breached the 1,645 level and vse spokesperson H…

With mining and processing operations under way one month ahead of schedule in Montana, Pegasus Gold is projecting cumulative gold production for 1987 of approximately 225,000 oz. Last year the compan…

Canada’s second-largest source of acid rain, the 60-year-old copper smelter of Noranda Inc. in northwestern Quebec, is getting a new sulphuric acid plant. The plant, to help cut back on sulphur dioxid…

Indications are that the Mooseland could be the next gold property in Nova Scotia to warrant an underground exploration program. A third drill is being moved onto the Mooseland property, located 45 mi…

Spot closing prices in Pound Sterling per tonne Date Mar. 24 Mar. 23 Mar. 20 Mar. 19 Mar. 18 Copper 942-944 925-926 922-923 914-915 906.5-907.5 Lead 304.5-305 302-303 305-306…

It doesn’t take more than a flip through the pages of Kirkland Lake history to realize what a venerable position the Lake Shore mine held in that famous gold camp. One of the largest and richest mines…

A minority shareholder was unsuccessful in a bid to have a seventh director named to the board of Citadel Gold Mines at the company’s annual meeting in Toronto. “We, as minority shareholders, are bein…

Toronto-listed International Platinum Corp. has signed a letter of intent with Degussa A.G. to enter into further negotiations on a joint venture exploration agreement regarding several of the former’…