Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Junior gold producer Hycroft Resources & Development is poised to join the big leagues when its second Nevada mine comes on-stream in early 1988. Annual gold output will jump 50,000 oz to 75,000 oz go…

North American Rare Metals reports it has an agreement with IMEX (1987) Exploration and Company Limited Partnership providing for a private placement of $1,500,000 on a flow-through basis, at a price …

Toronto-listed NovaGold Resources Inc. has put a third drill on its 32-claim Fifteen Mile Stream gold property located 60 miles northeast of Halifax, N.S. “Our geophysical surveys indicate the Plenty …

Pacific Trans-Ocean Resources has purchased a 56.5% interest in the Gordon Lake property owned 43.5% by Telesis Corp. Located in the N.W.T., the property is two miles from Echo Bay’s Lupin gold mine. …

A legal fight has broken out over the sale last year by Noranda Inc. of about 1.5 million shares of Dumagami Mines to Agnico-Eagle Mines. At the centre of the dispute is a gold property consisting of …

Market trends in uranium are creating new situations in which it is becoming more difficult for utilities and producers to accommodate the requirements of each other, Nuexco’s George White, Jr says. A…

There are some striking similarities between the Australian and Canadian mining industries; so it’s not surprising that Australian companies are doing business in Canada and Canadians are developing n…

The joint national meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada and the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists will be held May 22-25, 1988, in St. John’s…

Neither mining executives nor media personnel are entirely happy with their relationship. Mining men feel that much of the coverage of their industry is unfair or inaccurate or both. They believe the …

A program of stripping, detailed mapping, channeling and sampling was performed in September on anomaly “A” on property in Currie Twp. located in northern Quebec between Val d’Or and Chibougamau, Norw…

Canhorn Mining of Toronto has entered into a private placement agreement with Great Horn Inc. of New York whereby the latter may purchase 200,000 units of Canhorn for a total consideration of $500,000…

The Soviet Institute of Metallurgy says it has a substitute alloy that could replace gold in its jewelry and industrial applications, Metal Bulletin reports. Named inpal and made from a combination of…