Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Semi-monthly reports as of July 15, showed 22,733,628 shares of 571 issues compared with 22,630,379 shares of 543 issues on June 30. Larger individual positions included: Amer. Barrick 335,062, up 106…

Calgary-based junior Strata-bound Minerals (ASE) has finally found a major company willing to finance exploration on its New Brunswick base metal properties including the Captain North Extension lead-…

The eighth annual geophysics workshop, chaired by Peter Hood of Geological Survey of Canada, was recently held at the Haileybury School of Mines. At the workshop, speakers addressed issues that involv…

The board of International Corona (TSE) has approved a restructuring plan aimed at separating Corona’s precious metals business from its various other interests. The previously announced plan calls fo…

Reports that Ontex Resources has struck a deal with Placer Dome for further exploration on the Brookbank gold property near Beardmore, Ont., boosted the junior stock by 50 cents to $2.50 during the we…

Fairfield Minerals Ltd – 500,000 units consisting of 1 sh and 1 wt offered @ $1.16 per unit. North Slope Minerals Inc. – 1,200,000 shs offered @ 25 per sh. Avril Explorations Inc. – 500,000 shs offere…

Options Open Series Volume Last Interest The New York closing gold price was $362.50 per oz. Last quotations for gold options traded in Montreal and Vancouver as provided at the close of trading each …

The Canadian mining industry has suffered a few black eyes in the past several years because a number of high-profile projects failed to live up to expectations and were either written down in value o…

Some lawyers never use five words if 20 could say the same thing. Some negotiators follow a similar rule: Never frame a simple deal if you can construct something more complex. There is probably some …

It was an awesome and somewhat incongruous sight. Here, in a desert drag race, were two huge Caterpillar mine trucks — the production-proven 195-ton 789 and its latest sibling, the massive 240-ton 79…

The Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) is heavily involved in research and development of products and processes that reduce pollution in its many forms. The agency, a sector of …

The names Pilgrim’s Rest, Barberton and Murchison Range ring down through South African mining history in the same way as do Kirkland Lake and Cadillac in Canada. These were the first significant gold…