Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Three senior officers and one director of Consolidated Ramrod Gold (TSE) bought and sold shares in June. According to the Ontario Securities Commission’s OSC Bulletin, director Allan Frame bought 2,00…

Results from the first five holes of a 37-hole program have increased reserves at the Hislop-Beatty project in northeastern Ontario. Operator Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) reports that the best intersection …

A story concerning the Montanore property in Montana (T.N.M., Aug. 15) should have referred to private company Montana Reserves as the project partner of Noranda Minerals. Montana Reserves has a net p…

Investors have exercised a series of warrants enabling Greenstone Resources (TSE) to raise $2.2 million. The warrants were issued in conjunction with two rounds of financing completed in mid-1992. The…

A group of Nova Scotian investors representing Cavalier Capital Corp. has initiated legal action against Westminer Canada and six other defendants. The investors claim to have suffered an $8-million l…

Drilling by Camnor Resources (VSE) is off to a promising start at the Willoughby gold property 26 km east of Stewart, in northwestern British Columbia. The first hole of this year’s program intersecte…

As increasing numbers of companies join the exodus to South America, opportunities to obtain properties with high mineral potential are decreasing quickly. This development is particularly true of cou…

Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin recently signed a purchase agreement for 50% of the ByR Ingenieria y Construccion S.A. of Santiago, Chile. ByR is an engineering-construction company with expertise in minin…

A dozen companies operated 17 talc mines in eight states in 1993, the U.S. Bureau of Mines reports. Most of the domestic talc production was from open-pit mining operations; underground mining was use…

Historically, Coeur d’Alene Mines (NYSE) has been associated with Idaho and the prolific silver mines of its namesake district in that state. But these days — with operating mines in Nevada and New Z…

Previous mining of mercury deposits in the northern California Coast Range mercury belt has become the source of environmental geochemical concerns. Occurrence of metals in the surrounding rock, soil,…

According to Statistics Canada, absenteeism will cost Canadian employers more than $10 billion in 1993. Two out of three employers that A. Foster Higgins surveyed at the end of 1992 also indicated tha…