Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Over-all it was a very good year for Pioneer Metals which reported net income for 1987 of approximately $4.1 million or 31 cents per share. This compares to earnings of $2.2 million or 27c a year ear…

Toronto-based Cliff Resources says it is progressing toward production at its Green Hill gold mine at the Olinghouse district, northwest of Reno, Nev. Financed with a project loan bridged to a gold lo…

As the dominant property-owner and principal mine-finder along the Carlin gold trend, near Elko, Nev., Newmont Gold has never felt the need to boast about its activities. A portfolio of 15 deposits an…

There comes a time in every explorationist’s life when he or she must enter upon private property. In most cases, no problems will be encountered, but every so often they are. The problem usually take…

The Hughes-Lang Group has grown to such an extent over recent years that it now comprises some 20 dif- ferent companies. The company has major programs in western and eastern Canada, the Yukon, Mexico…

Northair Mines has been developing the Willa property, in south eastern British Columbia, with partners bp Selco and Rio Algom. More than $10 million has been spent on exploration and development to d…

During the past three years, exploration expenditures have increased fourfold in the Pickle Lake, Meen Dempster and North Caribou areas of northwestern Ontario. By any measure, the money that has been…

Inco Gold, the recently-created company that handles Inco Ltd.’s gold exploration and development, will spend $40 million this year searching for precious metals around the world. This represents a 52…

Coniagas Mines, both directly and through affiliated companies, is pursuing a number of essentially gold exploration targets, which represent a 1988 budget of about $4 million. For Coniagas itself, th…

Saskatchewan Mining Development Corp.’s exploration expenditures are expected to increase in 1988 to about $8.5 million from $5 million spent in 1987. The largest portion, about $6 million, will be sp…

American Barrick Resources has a firm $3-million exploration budget for 1988, exclusive of exploration activity in the vicinity of the Mercur and Goldstrike gold mines in Nevada.(For information on th…

TOODOGGONE In terms of exploration activity, 1987 was one of the best years ever for the Toodoggone gold camp, north of Smithers, B.C. Much of the work was flow-through-funded, which obviously will pl…