Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Project operator Cominco (TSE) is gearing up for the start of its 1990 work program on the Tulsequah Chief volcanogenic massive sulphide project in northwestern British Columbia. A budget of $1.6 mill…

Relations between junior and senior mining companies in Ontario couldn’t be better this year, as demonstrated by the number of exploration joint ventures under way on dozens of properties across the p…

Recent drilling by Cache Resources (ME) on Parquet Resources’ (ME) Courville Twp. property, 19 miles northeast of Val d’Or, Que., has confirmed the presence of significant gold values in a previously …

Noranda Minerals, a unit of Noranda (TSE), has increased its stake in the Louvicourt Twp. massive sulphide discovery by purchasing an additional 20,000 shares of Societe Miniere Louvem (TSE). Louvem i…

MVP BGR Central Capital Net value $12.20 $6.30 $0.42 Price $11.25 $6.75 $0.34 Discount 7.79% 7.1% 19% Value $72,659,489 $106,084,397 N/A…

Nickel giant Inco recently awarded about 460,000 shares to 16,000 workers under the company’s employee share award program. Each worker was given 10 common shares and one additional share for each ful…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) Mar 123.50 119.20 120.25 + 8.35 Apr 117.50 117.50 117.35 + 8.45 May 117.40 114.25 115.35 + 8.60 SILVER (in US cen…

The strike at the Doyon Mine in northwestern Quebec has ended. Doyon is owned by equal partners LAC Minerals (TSE) and Cambior (TSE). The 380 hourly employees, who have been on strike since Feb. 4, vo…

The Prospectors and Developers Association (PDAC) recently released the following “environmental policy”: The PDAC is committed to the concept of sustainable development, which requires balancing the …

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) may soon be adding platinum bars stamped with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union to its trading inventory. The Soviet agency responsible for exporting t…

Gibraltar Mines (TSE) reported its highest earnings since 1979 for the year ended Dec. 31. Net earnings for the year were $24.3 million on revenues of $104.7 million, compared with earnings of $8.3 mi…

Since the mid-1980s, Manitoba’s mineral exploration industry has been showing strong growth in activity and spending. As a consequence of increased exploration since 1986, four new mines were put into…