Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Preliminary assay results were released by Fairbanks Gold (VSE) from a 45,000- ton bulk sample mined at its 51% owned Fort Knox gold property near Fairbanks, Alaska. The company said the preliminary, …

Juniors Onitap Resources (TSE) and Exploration Orex (ME) announced at presstime they have settled their legal dispute concerning the Goldboro gold property in Nova Scotia. Orex, which initiated the la…

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $377.30 — $7.45 Silver* $4.15 + $0.04 Platinum*$429.75 + $3.00 Nickel** $3.70 + $0.03 Lead** $0.29 — $0.02 Copper- $1.11 — $0.02 Zinc– $0.56 — $0.01 Courtesy of Sco…

Base metal stocks continued to benefit from the prospect of lower interest rates and the likelihood of a peaceful solution to the Gulf crisis during the week ended Dec. 11. The big producers including…

Your review (T.N.M., Nov. 26/90) of The Roman Empire reflects the view of the book’s author, Paul McKay, who obviously has omitted some facts. Thus your article reveals that the book was written with …

Ontario’s mines minister, Gilles Pouliot, says the Ontario government supports mining development on Shoal Lake in northwestern Ontario as long as it does not threaten the available supply of drinking…

A 5-claim package owned by Card Lake Resources in Holloway Twp., Ont., is looking increasingly attractive as Noranda probes extensions of the Lightening gold zone on a property optioned from Canamax. …

Exploration in the vicinity of the Seabee mine site in northern Saskatchewan has uncovered a promising new gold showing, say partners Claude Resources (TSE) and Manchester Resources. While prospecting…

Craftech Manufacturing, a private company, has signed an option deal to earn a 50% interest in Revere Resources’ (VSE) Rice Lake gold property near the old San Antonio mine in Manitoba. The deal marks…

Toltec Resources (VSE) recently completed a private placement of 150,000 units at 80 cents per unit. Each unit consists of one share and one warrant exercisable at 80 cents during the first year and 9…

The tax treatment of reclamation expenditures was the focus of mining industry addresses to the federal government in this year’s pre- budget consultations in Ottawa. In a submission to Finance Minist…

Two private placements totalling $300,000 have been completed by Spirit Lake Explorations (ME) which plans to begin a surface drilling program on its Edwards gold project in Jacobson Twp., near Wawa, …