Articles by Northern Miner Staff

DOOM AND GLOOM FOR MANY PRECIOUS METALS Apart from gold, not all is well with precious metals. And a good argument can be made that silver, platinum and palladium should continue to disappoint. The re…

Canadian mining communities have for years pondered, with considerable dread, what would happen when the motherlode runs dry. But the ascendancy of environmental protection as the political issue of t…

Ralph Denholm has been appointed to the position of service manager for Nordberg Machinery in Guelph, Ont. Denholm has been with Nordberg since 1969, most rcently as materials manager. This newly crea…

Increased production at mines in the western U.S. has enabled Amax Gold (NYSE) to report improved earnings for its 1990 third quarter ended Sept. 30. The Colorado-based company announced net earnings …

Surface Water Hydrology, edited by M.G. Wolman and H.C. Riggs. Published by The Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colo. 80301. 374 pages. $60 (hardcover). The …

Beginning to make its mark on the Canadian exploration scene, Battle Mountain Canada, a unit of Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE), recently started drilling a new gold zone in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake mining…

Carlisle Trost elected director.

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US81.50- 85.50 cents per lb. (Oct. 18, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US80-83 cents per lb. (Sep. 6, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Sep. 13, 1990). CA…

Yorkton Securities Inc. appointed financial adviser.

Robert Johnson appointed president succeeding James Watts who remains as a director.

The first eight holes drilled by Pegasus Gold (TSE) on the Century Gold property in Idaho returned mixed results, the most impressive being a 20-ft. intersection grading 1.13 oz. gold per ton. As oper…

Preliminary assays have been reported by Waddy Lake Resources (TSE) from the first 14 holes in a recently completed 29-hole drill program on the company’s Komis gold deposit in northern Saskatchewan. …