Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Moss Resources and Power Explorations have amalgamated to form Moss-Power Resources Inc. (MSP:TSE) each on a share-for- share basis.

A proxy fight is brewing at Goldcorp Investments, where Robert Simon and James McCartney are asking holders of the company’s A shares to appoint one of them as a proxy representative at the Goldcorp a…

Owners of the Silidor gold mine, just outside the western boundary of this northern city, have high expectations for the project. Operator Noranda (TSE) and partners Cambior (TSE) and Nova- Cogesco Re…

Tom Waterland, president of the Mining Association of British Columbia, slammed provincial land use policies after learning that a major mining company was forced to terminate an exploration program o…

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 …