Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Turkey is reported to have opened its first silver mine. Forecast by the Turkish government is the processing of 1.1 million tons of ore per year and an annual production of 122 tons silver. Most of t…

One of the few mines in North America to actually lose money mining gold in 1987 has been purchased by Hayes Resources. For $17 million cash and 2.4 million common shares from treasury, Hayes is getti…

Finally, we can talk about Prince Edward’s little island. Being the nation’s mining newspaper and P.E.I. being our only virgin province, untouched by mining, we’ve had precious few opportunities to in…

Total Resources (Canada) has completed its purchase of Getty Resources, acquiring an 87.6% interest on a fully-diluted basis. Following the closure of the deal, Total elected three new directors to th…

After filing a private placement to fund exploration on one of its British Columbia gold properties, Alberta-listed Goldcap Inc. is attempting to attract a financier for work on another. In a bid to r…

Several drill targets have been outlined and a $120,000 program is planned on Odessa Explorations’ Warsaw Canyon heap leach prospect in Santa Cruz Cty., Ariz. Six anomalous zones have been discovered …

Bralorne Resources — W. F. Limin appointed president and chief executive officer succeeding F. W. Fitzpatrick who is retiring after 17 years with the company.

Vancouver-based Armeno Re sources, active in the exploration of mineral claims in Canada and Ecuador and with oil and gas interests in western Canada, was recently listed on the Montreal Exchange. In …

While the ink is still drying on an agreement to sell its mining arm to a subsidiary of Australia based Western Mining Corp., Northgate Exploration of Toronto has gone shopping. Not content to sit aro…

A joint venture agreement with BayWest Capital Equities has given Barkhor Resources the right to earn a 50% interest in BayWest’s 164-claim Ross River-Faro gold prospect located near Faro in the Yukon…

In order to provide space for the dramatic growth in the number of mining stocks listed on all Canadian stock exchanges, we have deleted from our stock range tables those listings which are solely inv…

In the more than 40 years that I have read The Northern Miner I have never felt it necessary to respond to some of the letters you have published, but in the issue of Jan 18/88, under the heading Juni…