Articles by Northern Miner Staff

ASARCO INC. — William Borzick will head a newly created internal consulting group, based in Salt Lake City, Utah; Curtis Bates appointed plant manager of the Texas plant; Vincent Wildman appointed ma…

MVP BGR Central Capital Net value $11.58% %$5.82% $0.40% Price $10.50% %$6.125 $0.25% Discount 9.33% %5.2%5 37.5% Value $68,946,265 $103,048,838 N/A…

Plans for a $4.6-million underground exploration program at the Cochenour-Willans gold mine property near Red Lake, Ont., were finally revealed by Inco Gold recently. Inco Gold, a unit of Inco (TSE), …

Exploration on a kimberlite deposit in the Fort a la Corne region of Saskatchewan will begin in a few weeks. Several holes will be drilled on the most prospective of the seven diamond-bearing kimberli…

Encouraging results have been reported by Lixor (ME) from its gold project in Courville Twp., 25 miles northeast of Val d’Or, Que. Lixor is earning a 50% interest in the property from Billiton Resourc…

With the first phase of their 1990 drilling program complete, Suntac Minerals (VSE) has released an in-house reserve calculation for the C vein on the Polaris-Taku property in the Tulsequah River area…

Bema Gold (TSE) President Clive Johnson and directors Ian Johnson and Barry Rayment profited recently from the company’s decision to finance a major Chilean gold-copper project to production. Since Be…

Options Open Series Volume Last Interest May 360 C 129 23.50 155 May 380 C 1,125 9.50 1,352 May 390 C 275 6.20 829 May 400 C 1,026 1.80 1,646 May 410 C 163 2.00 1,913 May 420 C 436 0.90 3,655 Aug. 400…

A lawsuit overhanging the Louvicourt Twp. massive sulphide discovery took a backseat at a recent annual meeting in Toronto as President Jim Gill of Aur Resources (TSE) outlined the company’s plans for…

Net income of US$1.9 million (17 cents per share) on revenue of US$28.3 was reported by CoCa Mines (TSE) for 1989, compared with net income of US$184,500 (2 cents per share) on revenue of US$13.6 mill…

Sweeping economic reforms and anti-inflation measures initiated last month by Brazil’s new president, Fernando Collor de Mello, have sent that country’s capital markets into a tailspin and caused a se…

In a move that increases its interest from 33.33% to 51%, Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE) has gained control of the Bolivian gold mining company, Empresa Minera Inti Raymi. Battle Mountain had an option t…