Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Champion Bear Resources (ASE) has completed 15 holes on its One Man Lake gold occurrence in the Kenora area of northwestern Ontario. A series of en echelon gold zones varying from 4 to 22 ft. in width…

“It’s tough to do business down here,” says geologist Ted Dematties. “We always tell our clients that even if they do make a viable discovery, there is no guarantee they will ever get it to production…

Sandy Lake Explorations Ltd. – 2,210,000 units consisting of 1 sh and 1 wt offered @ 45 cents per unit, also 400,000 shs offered @ 43 cents per sh. Skeena Resources Limited – 600,000 units consisting …

Drilling on the J&L property near Revelstoke, B.C., has extended the strike extent of the recently discovered Yellowjacket zone to at least 200 metres in length. The zone was discovered late last year…

It is politically impossible to rein in a bureaucracy of managerial environmentalists” that has overseen expenditures of US$10 billion since 1980 while implementing and administering Superfund progra…

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $360.00 — $ 3.75 Silver* $ 3.61 — $ 0.09 Platinum* $393.50 + $ 5.50 Nickel** $ 3.92 — $ 0.06 Lead** $ 0.27 $ 0.00 Copper{ $ 1.12 — $ 0.01 Zinc{{ $ 0.55 + $ 0.01 Cour…

Societe Miniere Sphinx (VSE) is diversifying into oil and gas. President Michel David said his company has bought (subject to regulatory approval) a 15% interest in a gas recompletion well in Alberta …

Noranda Minerals, a unit of Noranda (TSE), has decided to shut down operations this spring at its Mattabi and Lyon Lake base metal divisions, about 80 km north of Ignace, Ont. The company cited recent…

Despite extreme volatility in the oil markets, weak gold prices and a US$4.2-million fourth-quarter loss, Toronto-based Horsham (TSE) had another profitable year. Horsham, which controls gold producer…

Falconbridge, the free world’s second largest nickel producer, says it is able to meet the Ontario government’s 1994 “Countdown Acid Rain” goal three years ahead of schedule. The government’s 1994 lim…

A diamond drilling program has started on Northern Abitibi Mining’s (ASE) Douay Twp. gold property under option to Inco (TSE) and Vior (ME) in northwestern Quebec. Equal partners Inco and Vior can ear…

Although details have yet to be finalized, the 1991 field program for the Frasergold project near Williams Lake, B.C., is expected to include more diamond and reverse circulation drilling and undergro…