Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Pacific Trans-Ocean Resources (ASE) President Frank Agar and a number of the company’s leading executives face an uncertain future following a recent bid by Belmoral Mines (TSE) of Toronto for the tro…

USMX Inc. (NASDAQ) of Lakewood, Colo., reports a net loss for the 3-month period ended Sept 30 of $252,000(US) or 2 per share on revenue of $1.81 million. For the same period a year earlier the compa…

For those environmentalists who think mining is nothing more than a blight on the land doing untold damage, consider these numbers provided by the government of Ontario, the country’s most active mine…

Flow-through financing for mining exploration may not be as much in the news as it once was in other parts of Canada, but in Quebec the investment scheme is alive and kicking. Whereas in the other pro…

Significant gold, copper and silver mineralization was intersected in recent drilling on the Texada Island project near Vancouver, B.C., a joint venture involving Freeport McMoRan Gold (NYSE) and Vana…

A surge in metals prices helped Scotiabank’s all-commodity price index advance by 1.8% in November. Metals prices increased by 6.1% compared with October, while oil and gas, forest products and agricu…

A joint venture agreement has been entered into by Cross Lake Minerals and Golden Dragon Resources (VSE) on a 35-claim property in Wilhemina Twp., north of Timmins, Ont. Cross Lake President R. S. Mid…

The non-communist world’s sub-market for custom copper concentrates has developed pronounced “boom-bust” cycles of 3-4 years duration since the oil crisis of 1973, writes Metals & Minerals Research Se…

The first phase of diamond drilling has been completed on the Joburke gold property held by Tarzan Gold (ASE) under option from Noranda Inc. (TSE). Located near Timmins, Ont., the Joburke was a former…

Mining came into the 1980s fat with debt. Now, according to all indications, the industry is closing out the decade lean (in terms of debt-to-equity ratios) and tough (ready to take on the competition…

There appears to be a tendency for success in mine-finding to attract lawsuits. The lawsuits are advanced by lawyers on behalf of their clients, and sometimes it is the ingenuity of counsel that has e…

The editorial “Mining a poor cousin in New Brunswick” (N.M., Dec 12/88) unjustly criticizes the level of funding provided by the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy for exploratio…