Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Inco Gold, a wholly-owned affiliate of Inco Ltd. (TSE), has recommended a 5,000-m drill program for the Vault project shared with Seven Mile High Resources (VSE). Located in British Columbia, the Vaul…

Volumes have started to creep back over the 20-million share mark and tagging along have been prices. Today’s 14.4-pt advance in the composite index moved the index to 3,310.29 pts on volume of 21.5 m…

PACOAL 89 tackles the future of the inter-relationship between power generators and coal with its theme “Electricity and Coal demand in the Asia-Pac ific.” The 4-day conference (in English) will be h…

He arrived on the northern Ontario mining scene during the first part of this century more or less unannounced, and in the next few years was reported to have made himself a pile of money. His name, h…

Approval has been granted to Denison Mines (TSE) to begin a $17.5-million underground test program on the company’s Midwest Lake uranium deposit. Located in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, th…

After having uncovered sections of mineralization grading as high as 0.14 oz gold per ton within a large zone of silicification, Bradner Resources (VSE) says it will conduct a 5,000-ft reverse circula…

Some very encouraging drill results have been reported by Varna Gold (VSE) from its Mings Bight property on the Baie Verte Peninsula in Newfoundland. Three separate mineralized horizons have been outl…

The board of directors for Massive Resources (TSE) got a surprise at the company’s annual meeting recently in Toronto. President John Sadowski intended to announce at the meeting that he was negotiati…

A public financing of $8.1 million has been arranged by Lyon Lake Mines (ME) to fund exploration at the company’s Belleterre and Mosquito gold properties. After spending $4.5 million to explore the tw…

Unfortunately, Canada’s policy of contributing public funds to smelter modernization programs nation-wide appears to have run smack into a conflict with our foreign policy with regards to apartheid in…

The federal government has announced its participation in a $300-million pipeline to Vancouver Island. In its support of the coal mining industry (editorial Aug 1) The Northern Miner should comment on…

A 2-day workshop sponsored by the Canadian Continental drilling program and the Geological Survey of Canada will be held on Nov 23 – 24, in Building 3, Observatory Crescent, Ottawa, to stimulate discu…