Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

Federal Northern Affairs Minister Tom Siddon has accepted a broadly based committee’s suggestions for overhauling legislation governing the Yukon mining industry. But Siddon has given the Yukon Minin…

Southlands Mining Corp. (SSM:VSE) has changed its name to Euro-Pacific Resource Group Inc. (ERO:VSE) with a consolidation of capital on a 1-new-for-5-old-share basis. The transfer agent is Montreal Tr…

Precious metal producer Pegasus Gold (TSE) will complete several thousand feet of drilling on Eagle Lake Explorations’ (ASE) Kelly Hill gold skarn property in Washington, following a joint venture agr…

Shareholders of Societe d’Exploration Miniere La Sarre (ME) recently voted in favor of a share consolidation and a name change. The company said its shares will be consolidated on the basis of one new…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US57.50-58.50 cents per lb. (May 30, 1991). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US84-85 cents per lb. (Mar. 14, 1991). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.90-3.05 per lb. (May 23, 1991). CAD…