Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Clayton Dodd, Roger Davey, Rodney Duncan, Irvin Ridd and Maynard Brown appointed directors.

Fifty senior managers at Noranda (TSE) have sold 1.6 million common shares at $20.50 per share through the Toronto Stock Exchange to raise $32.8 million. They used about $30 million of the proceeds to…

Toronto-based Citadel Gold Mines (TSE) has terminated the lease on its Surluga gold mill in Wawa, Ont. The lease had been held by Monk Gold & Resources (ASE). Citadel is reviewing its gold property an…

“They take the gold. We keep the cyanide.” So warns a full-page advertisement in the April 12 issues of The Spokesman-Review and The New York Times (western edition). It is the latest blow in an attac…

An underground sampling program has been completed on Exall Resources’ (TSE) La Verde Grande property in Sonora, Mexico. Sampling on the upper level of the old mine returned values of 1.13% copper, 3….

The Canada Labour Relations Board has dismissed an application for certification by an independent association seeking to displace the union representing workers at the Giant mine outside Yellowknife,…

A recent letter agreement allows a unit of Rio Algom (TSE) to earn an interest in the Lockwood property, a volcanogenic massive sulphide prospect near Everett, Wash. The 5-sq.-mile property is on leas…

On Nov. 29, 1938, at North Bay, Ont., members of the American Diamond Drill Core Manufacturers Association met with some of the principal drill operators and manufacturers in Canada. The purpose of th…

The Ministry of Energy, Mines and State Industry (SEMIP) in Mexico has lessened the amount of paperwork through which mining companies must wade. Paradoxically, doing so has entailed the use of still …

Montreal-based Louvem Mines (TSE), a subsidiary of St. Genevieve Resources (TSE), has completed a $700,000 private placement with a group of four investors. Pursuant to the placement, Louvem will issu…

Kalahari Resources (VSE) has re-entered a 2,036-ft. hole drilled seven years ago on a 25-sq.-mile magnetic anomaly in Quebec’s Eastern Twps. To test the source and base metal potential of the anomaly,…

Women working in geology today may think they are pioneering in a predominantly male field. But the real pioneer was from an earlier generation. Canada’s first female geologist was Alice Evelyn Wilson…