Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Since production began in 1983, Placer Dome’s Detour Lake mine has turned out more than half a million oz of gold. Pictured here with the gold bars that con tain the 500,000th oz are (left to right) T…

A bulk sampling program completed on the former-producing Simkar property near Val d’Or, Que, yielded an average recovered gold grade of 0.217 oz gold per ton. Partners Louvicourt Gold Mines (COATS) a…

It’s hard to imagine an issue that rings as truly Canadian as the impending sale of Falconbridge Ltd. to U.S.-based Amax Inc. It has all the elements of the traditional struggles between commerce and …

Although some in the mining industry find little merit in Noranda Inc. (TSE) making a takeover bid for Amax Inc. (NYSE), the acquisition still makes economic sense, according to Eric Zaunscherb, base …

Strike Minerals (COATS) has acquired 103 claims in Baden Twp., Ont. The claims are adjacent to a 28-claim block already owned by the company. An airborne geophysical survey has been completed.

Toronto-based Ego Resources (TSE) has optioned a 17-claim gold- silver property near Brislane Lake, N.W.T., from Initiative Explorations (COATS). The agreement gives Ego the right to earn a 100% undiv…

An ongoing program of step-out and infill drilling by Calpine Resources (VSE) is continuing to return encouraging results from the 21 zone of the Eskay Creek project in northwestern British Columbia. …

Now that three of Canada’s largest mining companies have agreed to participate in the Louvicourt Twp. joint venture east of Val d’Or, Que., a resolution to an ownership dispute is expected to be the n…

A heavy trader this week was Bonanza Metals with 44 transactions in the 95 cents -$1.15 range. This Quebec- based junior is hoping to come up with extensions to the former Poirier copper-zinc deposit …

A new gold discovery has been made by X-Cal Resources (TSE) on the company’s Snowbird property near Fort St James, B.C. Located 1,600 ft east of the East zone, the new gold-bearing zone is within a gr…

Having solved a number of operating glitches at its Chetwynd, Nfld. gold mine, Hope Brook Gold (TSE) is currently grappling with a new problem that is obviously beyond its control. As a result of lowe…

I wish to point out some serious inaccuracies in your reporting of the Calpine Resources article on the first two pages of your July 24, 1989 issue. Your final paragraph reads in part, “The company’s …