Articles by Northern Miner Staff

John McCuaig appointed director.

Frederic Hewett appointed president and chief executive officer; D. Bruce McLeod appointed vice-president; and Donald McLeod appointed chairman.

Alexander Cox and Angus Taylor appointed directors.

John Mooney appointed president and director; Robert Moxey, James Thomas, and Shirley Mooney appointed directors.

Mining and milling operations at the Jilau mine in Tajikistan have been halted for the second time this year, pending resolution of an impasse between operator Nelson Gold (NLG-T) and the Tajikistani …

Wednesday, October 30, 1996Price (US)Week’s ChangeGold*$380.30- $3.65Silver*$ 4.83…

McNickel (MCNC-C) has changed its name to Sahelian Goldfields (SHGI-C) on a 1-new-for-8-old-share basis.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved the proposed expansion of the Lone Tree gold mine southwest of Winnemucca, Nev.Santa Fe Pacific Gold (GLD-N) may now extend the mine’s main pit into Sec…

Salt Lake City-based Centurion Mines (CTMC-Q) has cut significant gold and silver mineralization in sedimentary rocks at its Kings Canyon property in east-central Utah,Drill hole 10 encountered minera…

Sunshine Mining & Refining (SSC-N) has received encouraging results from preliminary metallurgical testing at its Pirquitas silver-tin deposit in Argentina.Early results indicate that silver recoverie…

Junior Goldtex Resources (GXR-A) plans to spend $2.8 million on 50,000 ft.of drilling to test 10 gold properties in Nevada.A total of 11 targets will be drill-tested, while, at the same time, geochemi…