Northgate buys 20% interest in Chelsea Res
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…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Barkhor joins BayWest in Yukon gold venture
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…
Oil and gas listings deleted from tables
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…
Letters to the Editor Speculators “sole support for juniors”
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…
Lyon Lake to earn 50% of Mosquito Creek bet
Lyon Lake Mines of Rouyn- Noranda has signed an agreement to earn a 50% interest in Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines’ Mosquito Creek property in British Columbia. The Mosquito Creek property consists …
Toronto Stock Exchange Plummeting golds send market into tailspin
Continuing nervousness concerning the strength of the North American economies came to a head today as plunging bullion prices led the tse into a nosedive. Gold gave up another $27 this week as it bro…
Metal Prices PRODUCER PRICES (February 01, 1988)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 89.50 cents -91.50 cents per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.14-$1.18 per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). BISMUTH: New York dealer $4.75-$4.85 per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). CAD…
The 1987 Coal Review WESTAR
Vancouver-based Westar Mining is Canada’s largest exporter of metallurgical coal although it also exports thermal coal. The company is 66.6% owned by British Columbia Resources Investment Corp. and 33…
Important results from OGS study
Among the significant Ontario Geological Survey studies in the Northwest Region reported in the past year was the discovery of large areas of shallow oceanic platform sequences in several Ontario gree…
Letters to the Editor “My heart bleeds”
Re Juniors can’t afford red tape for speculators Jan 18: As one of the evil speculators who “hides behind a curtain,” etc., “in and out for a killing, or to rake the markets” whenever I get a chance, …
Acadia ups tons, grades
Avard Hudgins is building a mine. Nine fill-in holes put down on the L’Estrange shoot on Acadia Mineral Ventures’ Mooseland property in Nova Scotia have demonstrated the existence and continuity of a …
Core prepares for hard look at Knora gold bet
After months of quiet negotiations, Edmonton-based Core Explorations has got its hands on a property with some small-scale production potential. Located in the Kenora Mining Division, near Kenora, Ont…