Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A spring work program is being planned by Inco (TSE) to test a polymetallic massive sulphide target on the newly optioned Pitt Island property 40 miles south of Prince Rupert, B.C. Two junior companie…

Noted mining engineer Philip Sydney Broadhurst died recently in Toronto. He was 79. Broadhurst graduated from Queen’s University in 1938 with a B.Sc. degree in mining engineering. After the Second Wor…

Toronto-based Northgate Exploration (TSE) recently received final clearance for a previously announced rights offering. The company has set the exercise price at 80 cents or US69 cents for shareholder…

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $355.60 + $5.30 Silver* $ 4.14 + $0.19 Platinum* $337.40 + $1.90 Nickel** $ 3.31 $0.00 Lead** $ 0.23 – $0.01 Copper $ 0.95 $0.00 Zinc $ 0.52 + $0.01 Courtesy of Scotiaba…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) Jan 94.35 93.70 94.10 – 0.35 Feb 94.45 94.45 94.30 – 0.55 Mar 95.30 94.40 94.70 – 0.45 SILVER (in US cents per oz…

Mining companies will be setting aside a much larger portion of their budgets to cover reclamation costs and environment-related matters, according to a survey by Toronto accounting firm Peat Marwick …

Vancouver resource giants Cominco and Teck teamed up with Aur Resources during the week ended Jan. 14 to provide financing for the $326-million copper-zinc project at Louvicourt Twp., Que. The agreeme…

Jan 14 Jan 13 Jan 10 Jan 9 Jan 8 High Low Composite 300 3634.98 3594.39 3593.39 3580.60 3515.64 4009.47 3009.91 Metals & Minerals3039.41 2972.56 2975.04 2998.40 2939.33 3453.06 2502.63 Integrated Mine…

Platinum tumbled on the New York Mercantile Exchange in late 1991 after General Motors announced that it intends to shut down 21 of its North American automotive plants. Expectations that the GM closu…

BGR Central Net Value $8.32 $4.91 Price $7.63 $4.350 Discount 8.36% 11.4 Value $49,545,000 $73,185,705…

A mining symposium dealing with narrow vein mining (T.N.M., Dec. 30) at Val d’Or, Que., has been changed to Feb. 25 from Feb. 20. Focus will be a project sponsored by the Quebec Mining Association, wi…

Jan 7 Jan 6 Jan 3 Jan 2 Jan 1 Dec 31 High Low Composite 300 3512.92 3524.77 3517.47 3493.66 HOL. 3512.36 4009.47 3009.91 Metals & Minerals2937.61 2943.65 2982.27 2935.22 HOL. 2954.99 3453.06 2502.63 I…