Articles by Northern Miner Staff

At a time when institutions and individuals aren’t lining up to buy speculative stocks, the broker dealers who sell those stocks in Ontario have set up an organization to improve their public image. T…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) Dec 98.40 97.60 98.15 + 0.80 Jan 98.10 97.35 98.00 + 1.00 Feb 97.75 97.75 98.90 + 2.00 SILVER (in US cents per oz…

Osborne and Chapel Goldfields (TSE) has received final approval to purchase Odin Mining and Investment’s 48.6% interest in the company for US$1.65 million. Under the transaction, Osborne will retain a…

BGR Central Net Value $8.38 $4.98 Price $7.13 $4.450 Discount 14.94% 10.6 Value $49,872,000 $74,868,135…

The share prices of all public companies involved in the Eskay Creek project weakened slightly on news that Placer Dome (TSE) had elected not to increase its interest in the project to 50% under the t…

Bevan Anderson appointed vice-president, corporate affairs; Raymond Mongeau and A. Reid appointed directors.

Although 1991 was not a particularly good year on the financial front, Westmin Resources (TSE) enjoyed an extraordinarily successful year exploring its Myra Falls mine property near Campbell River, B….

Extensions of zone A at the Courville gold property northeast of Val d’Or, Que., may have a lower grade than that found in the centre of the zone, Cache Explorations (ME) says. A summer drilling progr…

No significant gold intersections were returned from a recent drill program carried out by Teck (TSE) on the Flat property in Pershing Cty., Nev. After assays were returned from the initial 5-hole pro…

McFinley Red Lake Gold Mines (TSE) and contractor Dominion Bridge have agreed to shelve litigation over a Red Lake, Ont., gold project while they look for a joint venture partner willing to develop th…

A loss of $114,000 on revenues of $423,000 was reported by Cathedral Gold (TSE) for its 1991 third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $202,000 on revenues of $581,000 for the comparable p…

In last month’s column, I pointed out a few shortcomings with the major study on competitiveness done by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University for Ottawa. In spite of certain weaknesses in th…