Articles by Northern Miner Staff

From the rear seat of a helicopter it looks more like the backdrop to a spaghetti western than the site of North America’s latest gold rush. As the visitor hovers over the open pit mines along the Car…

Pending the successful completion of an expanded underground evaluation of the Theresa mine property, equal partners Duration Mines and Locator Explorations could be in the gold mining business by the…

Partners Westmin Resources and Canacord Resources say they are currently re-estimating geological and mineable reserves at the Big Missouri property near Stewart, B.C. Previous reserves at the propert…

Industrial mineral producer Hedman Resources, is getting into the grassroots gold exploration game. The company has completed a staking program which staked 560 claims in five blocks within McCool, Mi…

Granges Exploration, which owns a 56.5% interest in Hycroft Resources & Development, plans to increase its interest to 58.5% following a private placement of shares and the exercise of one-year warran…

The tide of opposition to the Canada/U.S. free trade agreement continues to mount, and we think Canada’s mining industry, which has a good deal to gain from it and a lot to lose if it fails, should be…

Approximately $2.3 million has been spent this year by Nexus Resource Corp. on St. Joe Canada’s Silver Pond property in the Toodoggone area of B.C. Results are now available from a 99- hole program in…

Claude Resources, which with Placer-Dome Inc is busy with an underground exploration program on the Seabee gold deposit east of La Ronge, Sask, has come up with another gold discovery. Located 140 mil…

If attendance at cim’s District Six 11th annual meeting here Oct 28-31 is a barometer that will gauge exploration in British Columbia and the Yukon, then sagging stock exchange markets will not pressu…

Quebec junior-mining firm La Pause Resources has a new name: Ecudor Mining Society. The name change and a share consolidation, on a 10-old-shares- for-1-new-share basis, were approved at the company’s…

Net income of $4.8 million (59 cents per share) for the first nine months of 1987 has been reported by Sigma Mines (Quebec), compared with $4.97 million (42 cents per share) for the same period last …

Edmonton-based Golden Star Resources has increased its exposure to gold exploration in Guyana by signing mineral agreements for three permissions with the Guyanese government. According to Golden Star…