Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Some of the uncertainty felt by 575 employees at Rio Algom’s (TSE) Stanleigh uranium mine at Elliot Lake, Ont., was removed recently when the company agreed to amend its long-term supply contracts wit…

The level of mineral exploration in Canada has fallen dramatically during the past 18 months. The principal causes are: –The deteriorating state of the equity markets, particularly for junior resourc…

Overseas Platinum Corp. (OPC:VSE) has changed its name to Broadlands Resources Ltd. (BOD:VSE).

Placer Dome (TSE) has purchased another 1.4 million common shares of VSM Exploration (TSE) at a price of $1.07 per share. The acquisition increases Placer Dome’s interest in the junior from 50.7% to 5…

Investors greeted summer exploration plans with enthusiasm during the week ended June 18, driving up the share prices of Cochise Resources, Peter Island Resources and Northern Abitibi Mining. Gaining …

Drilling on the Bunce gold property in Pershing Cty., Nev., continues to return good gold values over widths of up to 80 ft. The drilling program is part of an ongoing $800,000 earn-in program. Annab…

Peter Edwin Graham, who in 1975 formed Graham Mining Ltd. with his father and built it into one of Ontario’s major mine contracting firms, died in Thunder Bay, Ont., June 11 of a massive brain hemorrh…

First closing of a private placement raised $400,000 for Yorbeau Resources (TSE), the company reported. The deal was intended to raise a maximum of $500,000 through the sale of up to 500 units. Each u…

The fact that financier Sir James Goldsmith has parked 28 million shares of Newmont Mining in a Vancouver-listed investment firm known as General Oriental Investments finally came to light during the …

Inspiration Resources (TSE) has accepted Minorco’s recent $100-million offer to purchase from Inspiration all of the shares of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE). If the deal goes through, it will ena…

Profits of US$6 million are expected to be realized by Fischer-Watt Gold (NASDAQ) and a joint venture partner from their recently opened Mystic gold mine north of Phoenix, Ariz. During the next nine …

Ongoing drilling by Westmin Resources (TSE) at its Myra Falls mine property returned two relatively narrow intersections of massive sulphide mineralization. The company is testing a new high-grade ma…