Articles by Northern Miner Staff

W. McKee appointed secretary-treasurer.

Battle Mountain Canada, a unit of Houston-based Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE), is planning to spend $1 million this year to follow up encouraging results from a group of claims near Kirkland Lake, Ont. …

A recent Editorial Page column (T.N.M., May 20/91) by M.R. Brown correctly identifies problems facing the mining industry, many of which have been initiated by various federal and provincial governmen…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange High Low Close Week’s Change COPPER(HG) (in US cents per lb.) Jun 101.55 99.70 100.40 + 1.10 Jul 102.10 99.80 100.70 + 1.30 Aug 100….

Toronto-based Horsham (TSE), which controls gold producer American Barrick Resources (TSE), recently reported a sharp increase in first- quarter earnings. Horsham said earnings for the first three mo…

Some heavy buying from the National Commercial Bank in Jedda helped to drive gold to its highest level since late January, during the week ended June 11. While the inevitable increase in the price of …

Wiscan Resources (TSE) President Richard Nemis and his wife Diane are poised to benefit from any share activity that may result from exploration on the Toronto company’s Wisconsin gold properties. Acc…

London Metal Exhange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne) Date June 11 June 10 June 7 June 6 June 5 Copper 1347-1349 1314-1316…

Jerry Wright appointed president and chief executive officer; Gordon Osbaldeston and Robert Welty appointed directors.

Randy Turner appointed president and director. John Greig, Gary Schellenberg and Jerry Minni appointed directors.

Allen Gordon appointed vice-president, technical services.

Semi-monthly reports as of May 31, showed 22,558,548 shares of 583 issues compared with 25,640,565 shares of 587 issues on May 15. Larger individual positions included: Amer. Barrick 423,542, up 290,8…