Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $357.10 — $ 7.10 Silver* $ 3.90 — $ 0.14 Platinum* $390.00 — $11.45 Nickel** $ 4.05 + $ 0.07 Lead** $ 0.27 $ 0.00 Copper{ $ 1.09 + $ 0.01 Zinc{{ $ 0.54 + $ 0.00 Court…

Mining types who met in Toronto at the annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention got the tonic they were looking for at the end of an otherwise depressing week. As gold slippe…

A surface exploration program focusing on both bulk tonnage and high grade vein systems will begin in June on the Sulphurets property in northwestern British Columbia. The 32-square-mile property is 6…

A new preliminary reserve calculation was released by Redfern Resources (TSE) for the Tulsequah Chief massive sulphide project in northwestern British Columbia. Redfern has a 40% interest in the proje…

Options Open Series Volume Last Interest May 360 C 10 11.00 55 May 390 C 5 2.60 85 Aug.430 C 200 1.80 500 Aug.440 C 25 1.50 70 May 360 P 10 6.50 120 The New York closing gold price was $356.00 per oz….

CopperQuest (OTC), a junior based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is planning a 1,200-ft., 4-hole program on the Bear Lake base metal property near Flin Flon, Man. CopperQuest will be testing four electromag…

While it has no new tonnage figure yet, Canchrome Mines (ME) believes it has boosted reserves considerably at its Reed-Belanger chromium property near Thetford Mines, Que., following completion of a p…

Regarding Nancy Parduhn’s letter (T.N.M., Feb. 4/91) about our Gold Probe product, while some of the points of information provided by Parduhn are most interesting, many do not pertain to our kit. We …

Total Energold (TSE) exploration manager Steve Parry says he is encouraged by results of nine holes drilled on a Joutel, Que., gold property held under option from Northway Explorations (TSE) and T&H …

We must thank Stanley Holmes for sharing his knowledge of the history of the Parys Mountain deposit (“Parys Mountain project revisited,” (T.N.M., Mar. 4/91). The history of Parys Mountain has a broad …

Vladimir Mackiw, retired executive vice-president of Sherritt Gordon, was recently honored by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) at its annual banquet. Mack…

Forbex Mining (ME) has reached an agreement with Bonanza Metals (ASE) to acquire the latter company’s 50% interest in the past-producing Poirier base metal property in northwestern Quebec. The deal ca…