Articles by Northern Miner Staff

No new greenfield copper smelters, including those currently planned or under construction, are required in the Western World until the end of the 1990s, according to a recent report prepared by Briti…

BGR Central Net Value $7.95 $5.04 Price $6.25 $4.50 Discount 21.42% 10.7% Value $45,301,000 $75,709,350.

If the economic recovery does not gather more momentum in 1993, it appears unlikely that base metal prices will show much improvement over their depressed 1992 levels. After sharp drops in October and…

Several massive sulphide intersections have been reported by Challenger Minerals (VSE) on its Marshall Lake base metal property 150 miles northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont. In a recently completed program…

Ongoing work on the South Kemess gold-copper property in north-central British Columbia is expected to advance the project to prefeasibility status by April. El Condor Resources (VSE), operator and 60…

The total value of stock traded on the Montreal Exchange increased by 16% in 1992 over 1991, compared with an increase of 13% of equity value traded for the Canadian market as a whole, preliminary fig…

Six new mines were opened and six former producers were reactivated across Canada in 1992. The mining projects created or saved 1,131 jobs, according to the federal department of Energy, Mines and Res…

Without doubt, 1992 will be remembered within the industry as the year diamonds gripped the imaginations of prospectors and investors alike. Slow to react at first, junior companies staked millions of…

September, 1991: BHP Minerals Canada (then BHP-Utah Mines) options a 51% interest in the claim blocks of Dia Met Minerals (TSE) in the Northwest Territories by funding exploration and a mine feasibili…

Several advanced mineral projects moved forward in British Columbia in 1992, while others were put on hold to await better financing conditions, or were placed in regulatory limbo by government decree…

A private placement of two million special warrants has been completed by Tiomin Resources (ME). Upon clearance of a final prospectus, the two million special warrants will be exchanged for two millio…

A director of Aber Resources (TSE) was a seller recently of some of the company’s shares. According to the Ontario Securities Commission’s OSC Bulletin, on Nov. 13, the day after the Aber-Commonwealth…