Articles by Northern Miner Staff

LAC Minerals’ (TSE) new sweeter offer for the remaining shares of 64.7% owned Bond International Gold (TSE) it doesn’t already own was recently approved by directors of both companies. Under the offer…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US60-61 cents per lb. (Jul. 2, 1991). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US84-85 cents per lb. (Mar. 14, 1991). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$3.05-3.15 per lb. (Jun. 27, 1991). CADMIUM…

Price (US) Week’s Change Gold* $370.20 + $ 2.45 Silver* $ 4.48 + $ 0.05 Platinum* $382.90 + $ 2.65 Nickel** $ 4.04 + $ 0.03 Lead** $ 0.25 $ 0.00 …

Ongoing drilling by Westmin Resources (TSE) returned more good assay results from the company’s Myra Falls mine property near Campbell River, B.C. Westmin is exploring a previously untested area near …

A preliminary exploration program is now in progress on the Red Cap polymetallic property in British Columbia’s Taku Valley, 40 miles east of Juneau, Alaska. The project will be operated by Internati…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange High Low Close Week’s Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) Jul 101.00 100.20 100.90 – 2.30 Aug 100.90 100.60 100.80 – 2.65 Sep …

A feasibility study carried out on the Duvay heap leach gold project north of Amos, Que., concludes that total costs would be $10.43 per ton, Societe Miniere Sphinx (VSE) reported. Direct recovery co…

A unit of Kennecott recently entered into a joint venture agreement allowing it to acquire a 51% working interest in the Lockwood massive sulphide project near Everett, Wash. The project is currently …

The first initial public offering by a junior mining company to be cleared by The Toronto Stock Exchange so far this year was revealed to the public during the week ended July 9. Shares of Wheaton Riv…

Ownership of the Kutcho Creek massive sulphide project is moving increasingly into the hands of American Reserve Mining (VSE). Situated near Dease Lake in northwestern British Columbia, Kutcho Creek i…

Within a few short years of Vasco da Gama’s discovery of a sea route to India in 1498, trade between Europe and Asia began on a new level. Silk and precious stones were in high demand, but the most lu…

Ongoing exploration at the Trout Lake copper-zinc mine near Flin Flon, Man., continues to intersect polymetallic mineralization below the 560-metre level, the lowest level in the mine. Testing the dow…