Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Dennis Bookshester appointed director; Ken Erickson appointed director of sales and marketing.

The Vancouver branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum (CIM) will hold its annual Student Awards Night on Feb. 29 at the Stanley Park Pavilion.Technical exhibits by students …

Manitoba’s Mineral Exploration Assistance Program (MEAP) has approved 36 programs for funding, and will provide the projects with $2.7 million.The program, which underwrites up to 35% of qualifying mi…

Toronto-based Atapa Minerals (CDN) has signed its second joint-venture agreement with PT Aneka Tambang (ANTAM) to explore and develop the latter’s properties in Java, Indonesia.Atapa’s new agreement w…

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Another Canadian junior, Nugget Resources (ASE), is joining the search for Indonesian gold.Nugget has obtained the exclusive option to buy a 5,000-hectare property, which lies on a gold-bearing trend …

Western markets managed to hold on to recent gains over the report period ended Feb. 20, despite gold’s slide below the US$400-per-oz. level.The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index touched a new …

Interest rate worries set off a round of selling on the Toronto Stock Exchange last week, and the TSE 300 composite index had fallen to 4,963.80 by the close of trading Feb. 20. The close represented …

Allan Resources (ALO: VSE) has changed its name to Fortress Financial (FFN:VSE).

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Montreal-listed Auriginor Exploration has acquired a 32% share of eight claim blocks from Palace Explorations (ME) in the Voisey’s Bay and Harp Lake regions of Newfoundland.To earn its interest in the…

Despite a decrease in production and an increase in cash costs over the past year, Golden Shamrock Mine (TSE) is looking to turn its operations around in 1996.Production at the Iduapriem gold mine in …