Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-based Wilco Mining and a private company called Deak Ariadne Ltd. have agreed to combine their respective mineral exploration and financial expertise under one company, Wilco announced recentl…

Encouraging results have been received by Card Lake Resources from the company’s gold property in German Twp., Ont. Located north of the operating Aquarius gold mine, the Card Lake claims were tested …

At the current mining rate, it would take less than a year for the Highland Valley Copper partnership to deplete an orebody the size of Hemlo. About a quarter of a million tons of ore and waste are mi…

With spring officially here you’d think the market would come out of hibernation but it hasn’t. Realistically, however, there’s no good reason why it should. Although gold prices have firmed lately, N…

Commencement of a $7.8-million program to remove a bulk sample from the Elder gold project near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., has been announced by partners Aunore Resources, which closed unchanged at 95 cents…

It could be several weeks yet before Rayrock Yellowknife Resources, as operator of the Dee Gold project in Nevada, commences the deep drilling program from its open pit at the north end of the prolifi…

Nickel, the metal which no one wanted during most of the 1980s, can’t be had today. As a result, several records were set as the nickel price rally, which started at the beginning of the year, explode…

Demand for nickel in a period of tight supply is driving the price of the base metal sky-high. The spot price for nickel on the London Metal Exchange (lme) had risen to the $8.70(US)-per-lb range at p…

A new gold zone has been uncovered by Ego Resources of Toronto on its Goudreau gold property near Wawa, Ont., the company reports. To date, 26 holes have intersected a gold-bearing shear zone which ha…

Partners Skylark Resources and Pic Prospectors International say deep drilling will not begin at the Pan property at Carlin, Nev., until mid-April. The program was originally scheduled to begin this m…

Stock brokers see their job as one of bringing together buyers and sellers of securities for their mutual benefit. For their services, brokers have traditionally received a handsome fee. But times a…

An $8.8-million(US) gold loan has been completed by Pacific Trans-Ocean Resources with Lloyds Bank Plc. The financing will cover funding for the Ketza River gold mine development under way in the Yuko…