Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Another junior exploration company has fallen victim to the Oct 19 market downturn. Monte Carlo Gold Mines, which has had trouble getting the financing to explore its Aruba Island gold prospect, has f…

A better year is forecast by Shearson Lehman Brothers for lead than for zinc. In its Annual Review of the World Lead & Zinc Industries 1987, Shearson says the zinc market is fundamentally oversupplied…

Noront Resources and Central Crude Ltd. have agreed to merge the two companies on the basis of one Central Crude share for each five shares of Noront held. Central Crude is active in mineral explorati…

Dolphin Explorations 0 3/4of Vancouver has negotiated a private placement of 109,180 flow-through shares to fund exploration work worth about $225,000 on the company’s properties. The issue price will…

Joint-venture partners Aunore Resources and Nova Beaucage Mines say they plan to start mining in April a bulk sample from the Elder gold property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and hopefully will be in pro…

W. R. O. Aitken, executive vice- president of Inco Ltd., will be the guest speaker at the annual Students Night meeting of the Toronto Branch cim to be held at the Royal York Hotel Jan 21. Topic will …

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 89.00 cents -91.00 cents per lb. (Jan 7, 1988). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.12-$1.16 per lb. (Dec 10, 1987). BISMUTH: New York dealer $4.70-$4.80 per lb. (Nov 19, 1987). CADM…

The recent takeover bid for Halifax-based Seabright Resources by the multi-billion-dollar Australian mining conglomerate Western Mining Corp. Holdings has finally given credibility to Nova Scotia’s Me…

Good drill results from a neighboring claim has moved Ark La Tex to take another look at its Sunset Lake prospect, located 70 miles east- northeast of Yellowknife. Ark La Tex has an option to earn 60%…

Terramar Resource Corp. has agreed to purchase Mount Gaines Resources, a California company whose principal asset is the old Mount Gains gold mine in California. Between 1853 and 1949, the mine produc…

Just about a year ago an event of great significance in the world of gold took place: the United States Mint, for the first time in a generation, struck a legal tender gold coin — the new U.S. Eagle,…

High demand and low inventories have sent copper prices flying and it isn’t just the big producers who are benefiting. The ripples are spreading and one busy trader of late, United Gunn Resources, exp…