Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Total looking to sell mineral assets

Total Resources’ decision to rid itself of all its mineral assets has led its 71% owned subsidiary, Total Energold (TSE), to put all the company’s mineral assets up for sale. Total Energold is involve…



Noranda explores near Stewart

A unit of Noranda (TSE) will operate an exploration program this year on the Knipple Lake polymetallic prospect, 60 km north of Stewart, B.C. Hyder Gold (VSE) can earn a 50% interest in the property f…


Alberta Stock Exchange Golconda falls 34 cents

During the week ended April 16, shares of Golconda Resources fell 34 cents to close at 77 cents on volume of nearly one million shares after the company released mediocre assay results from the first …



Report of Activities

Copies of the Resident Geologists 1990 Report of Activities are now available from ministry offices across the province. The report, published each year by the Ministry of Northern Development and Min…


PRODUCER PRICES (April 22, 1991)

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US66.50-68.00 cents per lb. (Apr. 4, 1991). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US84-85 cents per lb. (Mar. 14, 1991). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Jan. 31, 1991). CAD…


Hillsborough profit up

Higher contract revenues from the Westray coal project in Nova Scotia and the Mt. Hundere lead-zinc project in the Yukon helped Hillsborough Resources (TSE) double its profit in the first quarter of t…


Westmin explores copper-gold bets

An extensive exploration program will be carried out this season by Westmin Resources (TSE) on two large porphyry gold-copper projects north of Prince George, B.C. The two properties are 40 km west of…


Silver Standard boosts potential

Recent drilling by Silver Standard Resources (VSE) on the La Choya project in northern Mexico is reported to have outlined mineralization north and east of the project’s previously defined reserve of …


Lodestar acquires porphyry prospect

A diamond drilling program has been proposed to test Lodestar Explorations’ (VSE) recently acquired Taurus copper-molybdenum-gold property, 46 miles northeast of Tetlin Junction on the Alaska Highway….


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