Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A summer rally which began last week, continued to roll along adding more than 87 pts to the composite index this week. Today, the TSE index advanced 33.98 pts to close at 3,366.53 pts on volume of 23…

Choosing between tenure at the University of Alaska or forming his own exploration company, Lawrence Heiner opted out of academia in 1970 and created Resource Associates of Alaska. He hasn’t looked ba…

A private placement has been entered into by Bruneau Mining (ME) with its major shareholder, Canamax Resources (TSE), whereby Canamax will acquire 1.5 million treasury shares of Bruneau at 30 cents e…

The first William Harvey Gross award, consisting of a medal and a cash supplement through an endowment provided by Lacana Mining Corp., was awarded to Robert Kerrich of the University of Saskatoon by …

The result of a recently completed airborne geophysical survey covering an area of 4,000 sq km surrounding Wawa, Ont., have been released, Mines Minister Sean Conway said recently. “These are the firs…

Euro-Nevada Mining Corp. has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of a 3% net smelter return on the Marigold mine near Battle Mountain, Nev., fo r $2,187,500 (US), decreasing to 1.75% nsr aft…

A number of companies associated with promoters David Ward and Edward Carter have been halted by the Vancouver Stock Exchange until management changes are made. The VSE contends their continued associ…

Windarra Minerals (VSE) reports that its initial private placement with Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) has been completed. The placement consisted of two million shares at $2 per share, providing $4 million t…

An $8.5-million debt financing has been completed by Stan West Mining (TSE) which will fund development at the company’s McCabe gold project in Arizona. Placed with Elders Finance Group, an Australia…

In times of prosperity, Inco Ltd. (TSE) has shown that it is prepared to share the spoils with its employees. That became obvious recently when about 6,300 hourly paid Inco workers voted to accept a n…

The current uncertainty in the U.S. uranium market could be cleared up soon. Unconfirmed rumors are that the U.S. government is prepared to put up about $1 billion for uranium tailings reclamation wor…

News out of Australia has the Labor government saying it will introduce a tax on gold-mining profits in 1991. Producers of the yellow metal there haven’t paid any taxes since 1925. Australia turned ou…