Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Net earnings of $14 million were reported by Teck (TSE) for its latest quarter ended Sept. 30, a sizable increase from the $6 million reported in last year’s third quarter. The company’s mining operat…

The Mines, Minerals and Energy Resources group of Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has introduced a new twist to its Annual Review of Activities. To be held Nov. 4-5 at the World Tr…

Toronto-based junior Goldpatch Resources (CDN) has agreed to purchase all of the issued shares of a numbered Ontario company in exchange for $125,000 in cash and one million common shares of Goldpatch…

Having recently intersected a kimberlite on their Lac de Gras area property, Aber Resources (TSE) and partners SouthernEra Resources (TSE) and Commonwealth Gold (VSE) must now await processing results…

The writing is on the wall, and in red ink. Our preoccupation with things constitutional and our perceived inability or unwillingness to deal with economic issues have worried foreigners. Statistics C…

Reacting to growing unemployment and falling confidence, consumers worldwide are cutting all unessential spending, including metals. Ignoring their consumers and voters, governments, with huge deficit…

By the second quarter of 1993, International Musto Explorations (TSE) expects to complete a feasibility study which it hopes will bring the technical and economic potential of the Bajo de la Alumbrera…

With the recent completion of an 8-hole drilling program on the Keystone project in South Dakota, Cyprus Minerals (NYSE) has opted to drop its option. Cypress could earn a 50% interest in the property…

Projected rates of asbestos-linked disease in the U.S. were grossly exaggerated, says the president of the Asbestos Institute of Montreal. Michel Gratton was responding to the publication of several s…

Consolidated Oasis Resources (ME) has secured the right to earn a 50% interest in two gold properties in Verneuil Twp., Que., from VSM Exploration (TSE) and Serem Quebec. Oasis can earn the interest b…

An option agreement to acquire a 100% leasehold interest in the Sawyer mine property in Randolph Cty., N.C., from Carolina Mines has been entered into by Minefinders (VSE). A multi-year schedule of pa…

Herman Becker-Fluegel and Michael Coulter, two officers of United Reef Petroleums (TSE), sold a large block of their holdings in the diamond explorer in September, according to the Ontario Securities …