Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Coeur d’Alene Mines (NYSE) recently acquired an option to earn a 20% interest in Australian-based Gasgoyne Gold Mines and is now planning to make a takeover bid for all that company’s issued shares.Am…

Two drill holes at the Winteroad property of Patrician Gold Mines (ASE), east of Matheson, Ont., have intersected gold mineralization in quartz-carbonate veins.The highest-grade intersection in hole Q…

In Ontario, diamond drilling is under way on the Barry Twp. property of Murgor Resources (VSE).The first phase of the winter program consists of systematic, shallow drilling of the gold showing, where…

Canyon Resources (NASDAQ) has extended its option on several mineral concessions in Brazil’s eastern Amazon region.The decision follows the acquisition, by Toronto-listed Golden Star Resources, of a 1…

Jean-Pierre Devos appointed director.

Walter Brooks appointed vice-president and director, and Conrad Clemiss appointed director.

Thomas Ogryzlo appointed director.

Alvin Jackson appointed director.

David Tinsley and Gordon Fretwell appointed directors.

Exploration in Labrador and Greenland will be the subject of a one-day symposium to be held January 26, 1996, in Toronto.The University of Toronto chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists is orga…

Living in northern Ontario or Quebec during the “Dirty Thirties” had its compensations. It was one of the few places where manual jobs were occasionally available, thanks largely to the demand for wor…

U.S.-based Mineral Recovery Systems has unveiled a centrifugal jig aimed at increasing gold recovery.By distributing a fine slurry feed over the rotating jig bed, the device is able to capture extreme…