Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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The privatization of Canada’s as yet unamed uranium mining giant, is expected to spark a scramble by deal-hungry corporate finance departments vying to get a piece of the action. Following the October…

Subject to shareholder and regulatory body approval, Nexus Resources, Angle Resources and Reward Resources will amalgamate to form one company to be known as Nexus Resource Corp. Shareholders of Nexus…

Can you tell me what happened to O’Brien Energy. The company was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but it disappeared about a year ago. Its chief interest was a geothermal deposit in Nevada which …

Breathing new life into the former producing Bagdad Chase gold mine, Bentley Resources is working towards starting up a 350-ton-per-day operation in October this year. The mine, located in the Mojave …

Net income of $591,000 (2 cents per share) was recorded by Toronto- based Hope Brook Gold for the five- month period ending Dec 31, 1987. Cash provided by operating activities totalled $674,000. Hope …

Claims by Noranda Inc. that exploration information about a gold property in northwestern Quebec was withheld prior to the sale of shares in one of the companies involved have been denied by Agnico-Ea…

A lawsuit launched against Falconbridge Ltd. and Minnova Inc. dominated discussion at the annual meeting of Toronto-based Opawica Explorations. Opawica, former owner of the Lac Shortt gold mine proper…

The 60th annual meeting of the Lead Industries Association and the 70th annual meeting of the Zinc Institute will open April 11 in Chicago. The 3-day lead/zinc affair will cover marketing and supply-d…

A crashing gold price, which erased 232.13 pts from the tse’s gold and silver index today, was the only highlight in a generally lacklustre trading week. Bullion tumbled through the $440-mark to $435….

Walter Baker, an 83-year-old Kirkland Lake prospector who first suggested to Donald McKinnon that claims around the cpr whistle-stop of Hemlo might be worth looking into, has been named Prospector of …

Equinox Resources has an option to earn a 60% interest in the Maude Lake gold deposit in Ontario. The deposit contains reserves of more than one million tons grading 0.2 oz gold per ton, not 0.1 oz as…