Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has issued an order against Pamour (TSE) which requires the company to take certain steps in relation to an incident last October near Matachewan, Ont., involvi…

Halfway through a 20,000-ft. underground drilling program on the Pend Orielle project in Washington State, RFC Resource Finance (TSE) has extended the strike length of the Yellowhead zone by 600 ft. L…

After having netted $1.28 million in a recent public financing, Loki Gold (VSE) is well financed to meet exploration commitments scheduled for this year on the Brewery Creek project near Dawson, Yukon…

Trading slowed down during the holiday-shortened week ended May 21, with daily volumes ranging between 3.2 million and four million shares. While the market portfolio managed a gain of less than one p…

May 21 May 20 May 17 May 16 May 15 HIGH LOW Composite”300″ 3447.63 Holiday 3449.74 3456.18 3444.71 4009.47 3009.91 Metals & Minerals 2991.77 Holiday 2997.42 3017.76 3007.73 3453.06 2502.6…

Even though mesothermal vein-type gold deposits are most often associated with Juneau’s rich mining past, the district’s first new producer is a massive sulphide deposit that turns out significant amo…

As 40% of the world’s zinc producers will have trouble meeting their cash costs at current prices, zinc won’t remain at recent levels for very long, said Graham Farquharson, President of Conwest Explo…

Ardvreck Inc., a private company controlled by former Pamour (TSE) President Denis McLeod, recently agreed to purchase a 22.4% controlling stake in Vancouver-based Golden North Resources (TSE). Pendin…

As we prepare for Corona Corp.’s annual and special general meeting which will take place May 31 in Vancouver, we were a little non-plussed to read in the TSE market report (T.N.M., May 6/91) that our…

BMR Gold (TSE) has hired a New York investment banking group to help in arranging a private financing worth up to $4.5 million to be spent on BMR’s Oliver Hills heap leach facility, which is nearing s…

Following a joint venture agreement between Kennecott and NovaGold Resources, Costigan Gold, which closed unchanged at 35 cents, has agreed to revise its partnership with NovaGold. Costigan will excha…

The Vancouver composite and resource indices retreated during the period ended May 14. The resource index shed 3.37 points to finish at 530.87, while the composite index dropped 4.30 points to settle …