Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A positive production decision on the Snip property, in the Iskut River region north of Stewart, B.C., is virtually a certainty, according to mine manager Merlyn Royea. The project is 60% owned by Com…

A private placement recently announced by Newfield Minerals (TSE) (T.N.M., June 4/90) was not accepted by The Toronto Stock Exchange and, therefore, will not proceed. The proposed placement included f…

Your article “Listening device to minimize cave-ins” (May 28/90) says researchers at Queen’s University have developed a listening device that “identifies places to dig so that cave-ins will not occur…

Normally, I spend a great deal of time and energy in finding investments that have lost most of their value and are terribly out of favor — like the junior gold shares which, on average, have fallen …

Pioneering mine operators are finding it rough going in the area north of Stewart, B.C., paralleling the border between British Columbia and Alaska and including the Stikine Arch. They hope that the c…

One of this summer’s biggest drilling campaigns for gold in Ontario is being conducted by Noranda and Freewest at their Harker-Holloway project near Matheson, Ont. Other nearby projects make this one …

The boom years over, junior mining companies must now try to survive through the lean years, when private investors tend to play a much larger role in their continued health. No longer able to count o…

A positive production decision for the Snip property in the Iskut River regions north of Stewart, B.C., appears to be near. Mobilization of construction equipment is already set for the project which …

June 12 June 11 June 8 June 7 June 6 HIGH LOW Composite 300 3607.66 3578.66 3571.34 3604.64 3611.93 4009.47 3334.13 Metals & Minerals 3241.35 3201.86 3197.75 3236.04 3240.15 3453.06 2850.84 Integrated…

Misinterpretation of reserves at the McCoy/ Cove mine and again at the Magino and Magnacon mines has cost Echo Bay Mines (TSE) millions of dollars. In 1989, Echo Bay’s per-share earnings dropped to 16…

Pierre Lassonde, the president of Franco-Nevada Mining turned author, takes a look at the 1990s in this excerpt from his new book on the gold (and silver) industry, The Gold Book, published by Financi…

A drilling and trenching program is set to begin at the McConnell Creek property under option to Placer Dome (TSE) from Gerle Gold (VSE). Placer spent $600,000 on the property last year and can earn a…