Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Exploration programs of Preussag Canada are continuing in northwestern Ontario and Mattagami, Que. The Ontario program is a grassroots play to follow up input airborne surveys which have indicated an …

Equity Silver Mines of Vancouver reports it has entered into an agreement with Nim and Co., Ltd. Partnership — 1987 under which Equity will obtain up to $5 million in exchange for issuing up to 422,7…

The Sicker Group on Vancouver Island has been the subject of some fairly intense exploration in recent years, much of it by Westmin Resources and Nexus Resource Corp. Westmin’s Buttle Lake mining oper…

A private placement has been completed by Goldstake Explorations which has raised $750,000. The issue of one million common shares with warrants was made to a European group. The proceeds, Goldstake s…

It took nine years and 24 separate deals to consolidate the Big Missouri properties near Stewart, B.C., into a simplified package for Westmin Resources. Over that period, Tournigan Mining Explorations…

Additional funding is being sought by Camindex Mines for the Valdez Creek Mine gold project in Alaska, in which Camindex has a 51% interest. The company reports it is in arrears with respect to its fu…

Debt free and possibly into gold production by spring, 1988. No wonder James Gill, president of Aur Resources, was in an upbeat mood when he recently chaired his company’s annual meeting. The junior e…

A potentially viable heap leach situation in Nevada is being evaluated by Noramex Minerals. President Brian D. Fairbank says probable reserves now stand at about 85,000 tons grading 0.074 oz gold, hig…

Terratech Resources says arrangements have been completed to dispose of its remaining interest in Health Development Services. President Hugh Cameron says profit on the transaction will be reflected i…

Diamond drilling continues to meet with encouragement on the Casa Berardi joint venture gold property of North American Rare Metals and Dundee-Palliser Resources in Vezza Twp., 25 miles south of Matag…

Some high grade gold values have been encountered in an underground drifting program at Levon Resources’ Congress property near Goldbridge, B. C. Assays from a 36-ft section in the Howard vein structu…

The results are in on the second hole of the deep drilling program at the Doyon mine and they carry important tonnage implications for this northwestern Quebec gold mine. Joint venture partners Lac M…