Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A half-metre-long intersection cut 24 grams gold per tonne (0,7 oz. per ton) in hole McV-91-3 at the Linjog prospect on the McVean Lake claim block in the Pickle Lake area of northwestern Ontario, Maj…

Financial results for Treminco Resources (TSE) for the first half of fiscal 1990 show a loss of $264,000, which is slightly less than the $265,000 loss experienced for the first six months of 1990. Th…

A 12,500-ft. drill program is scheduled to begin in late May on Westpine Metals’ (VSE) Taseko copper-gold property, 140 miles north of Vancouver, B.C. The property is reported to contain preliminary r…

Queenston and Strike Minerals have signed a formal joint venture agreement on the Robertson Twp. base metal property near Matachewan, Ont., giving Strike a 40% interest in the project. The partners ar…

Exploration and pre-development expenditures in Saskatchewan are estimated at $45 million for 1991 compared with $57 million in 1990, and $105 million in the recent peak year of 1988. While base metal…

After years of searching through the fly-infested bushlands of northern Ontario for mineral deposits, Timmins prospector Don McKinnon is shifting his attention. McKinnon is launching an all out person…

Minnova (TSE) boosted its interest in Laramide Resources (TSE) to 40.1% through the purchase, via a private placement, of an additional 825,238 shares. Minnova acquired the extra shares by spending mo…

Even though the company was formally taken off the auction block in May of last year, Asamera Minerals (TSE) is once again being offered for sale by a unit of its parent company, Gulf Canada Resources…

The cash price of cash copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) went from US$1.34 on Sept. 3, 1990, to US$1.53 Sept. 17, to US$1.26 on Oct. 1, and finally to US$1.07 on Jan. 30, 1991. Furthermore, LM…

Saskatchewan, as well as most of Canada, has the positive geological feature of being on the largest craton in the world, and relative to the Siberian and South African cratons, should contain hundred…

What are the theories and philosophies that motivate the environmental movement, particularly its more radical fringe? Hugh Morgan, managing director of Western Mining, Australia, gave a few answers i…

For at least 6,500 years, gold has been treasured for its beauty and rarity. The enormous amount of labor put into gold production since prehistoric times has yielded cumulative world production of go…