Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Intimately associated with Saskatchewan’s big and fascinating potash mining industry since 1964, W. H. Eatock knows it like a book. Now general manager of Allan Potash Mines, he joined that 0000,0600 …

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold*$368.10+$7.70 Silver* $5.13+$ 0.08 Platinum*$487.00+$ 6.70 Nickel**$ 4.71–$ 0.01 Lead**$ 0.35+$ 0.02 Copper$ 1.32+ 0.02 Zinc$ 0.75–$ 0.01 Courtesy of Scotiabank. In…

Aur Resources (TSE) President Jim Gill recently attempted to downplay the effects that a legal dispute with partner Societe Miniere Louvem (TSE) could have on future development of their massive sulph…

The typhoon lashing the financial markets is making sure the metals sector is not ignored. Although metals prices have remained essentially unchanged following the Friday the 13th debacle in New York …

The Vancouver Stock Exchange rebounded swiftly after the October, 1989, mini market crash that began ominously enough on Friday 13th as a broker’s worst recurring nightmare. But after sweating out the…

Airborne geophysical surveys, which provide a cost-effective method of covering large, inaccessible areas, have started in northern Ontario. The Shining Tree, Batchawana, North Swazye/Montcalm Twp., S…

An option agreement has been signed by Exploration Brex (ME) to allow it to acquire a 100% interest in a graphite property in Preston Twp., about 12 miles from Mont- Laurier, north of Montreal. Brex r…

A mere six years ago, three of the gold mining companies represented at the Goldman, Sachs mining seminar here did not exist. That point, made during a panel discussion by Ned Goodman, chairman and f…

Results from a series of new drill holes on the Dolly Varden properties near Stewart, B.C., has Dolly Varden Minerals (VSE) planning a substantial drill program to further test the property’s potentia…

Almost a year after Toronto- based Inco Ltd. (TSE) became the first Canadian company to adopt a shareholders’ rights plan, also known as a poison pill, the concept is beginning to catch on. As they se…

The shares of Dayton Porcupine Gold Mines took a big drop this week, shedding 65 cents to close at $1.75 on six transactions. The company operates the Ross mine east of Timmins, Ont. Ore at that unde…

In the Oct 2, 1989, issue of The Northern Miner, you carried an article headlined “Thermal, Teck combine on Yukon copper oxide deposit.” I’d like to clear up some misunderstanding which the emphasis o…