Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A $400,000 exploration program will begin shortly on the Brewery Creek property near Dawson, Yukon, a bulk-tonnage gold project owned 51% by Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) and 49% by Loki Gold (VSE). The prog…

Queenston Mining (TSE) has signed a letter of intent to purchase 30.5%, or 3.5 million shares, of Thermal Exploration (ASE) at 35 cents per share. Thermal has a 50% interest in the Williams Creek copp…

“U.N. Earth Summit” (T.N.M., Jan. 20/92) incorrectly identified Kenneth McCready of TransAlta Utilities as spokesman for Canada’s mining industry at the June, 1992, United Nations Conference on Enviro…

BGR Central Net Value $8.31 $5.22 Price $7.75 $4.650 Discount 6.75% 10.9% Value $49,490,000 $78,232,995…

Further drilling at Kingswood Explorations’ (ASE) 24-claim Devon property near Matheson, Ont., has intersected a wide, gold-bearing zone called the “Thunder zone.” Hole 92-16 intersected 57.7 ft. grad…

A recent private placement at 20 cents per share raised $170,000, Radisson Mining Resources (ME) reports. The proceeds will be used to start an exploration program on the company’s Duquesne property n…

Shareholders of both Gateford Resources (ASE) and Landmark Corp. (TSE) recently approved an amalgamation of the two companies. The name of the amalgamated company will be Landmark Corp.

Every week I read The Northern Miner hoping to see a change in the stability of the mining industry, and yet it never comes. The articles describing the bickering between the provincial and federal go…

Times are tough in Canada. Not only is the economy stalled in a recession, but even when the recovery comes, we will have to find our way in a global village where the street signs keep changing. To c…

A third drill rig has been added to the Benoit gold project in the Quevillon area northeast of Rouyn, Que., where Freewest Resources (TSE) made a significant gold discovery last winter. Two of the rig…

P.T. Inco, Inco’s (TSE) Indonesian division, produced a record amount of nickel in matte during 1991 75.9 million lb. compared with 59.6 million lb. in 1990. But despite the production increase, P.T. …

The total value of mineral production in Canada in 1991 decreased by 14.6%, or about $6 billion, from the 1990 level, Energy, Mines and Resources Canada (EMR) reports. EMR said this decline was mainly…