Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

A junior mining firm incorporated in 1985, Exploration Vent d’Or (Gold Wind Exploration) of Val d’Or, Que., was recently listed for trading on the Montreal Exchange (symbol von). The company was origi…

In a recent announcement that should have surprised no one, Minnova Inc. of Toronto said it will put its massive sulphide Ansil copper project in northwestern Quebec into production, with start-up exp…

A 3% interest in the Siscoe- extension property, located six km northwest of Val d’Or, Que., is being acquired by Armeno Resources from Maufort Resources. Maufort has an 85% interest in the property. …

Stephen B. Roman, the man who took control of a penny mining stock in 1953 and built it into one of the largest mining empires in Canada, has died. He was 66. A spokesman for Denison Mines said Roman …

No economic gold values were assayed in core from an initial drill program completed by HSK Minerals on the company’s Vigrass Lake project near Kirkland Lake, Ont. The program was designed to follow u…

Canamax — Amax Gold (Can) bought 83,500 to hold 6,922,057. Chelsea — Northgate bought 1,000,000 (private) to hold 1,000,000 common shares and bought 400,000 warrants to hold 400,000. Gldn Briar — M…

The copper “boom” appears to be coming to an end, according to any number of analysts, including Raymond Goldie of Richardson Greenshields. Supply of the base metal in 1988 in the Western world will j…

The Magino joint venture of equal partners McNellen Resources and Muscocho Explorations expects to make a production decision on its gold property near Wawa, Ont., before the end of June. Muscocho Pre…