Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Partners Gateford Resources and Macamic Resources expect to have a drill program completed by March, 1988, on their Reed-Belanger chromite property in the Eastern Townships, Que. Macamic must spend $7…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 85.00 cents -88.00 cents per lb. (Oct 22, 1987). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.10-$1.16 per lb. (Oct 8, 1987). BISMUTH: New York dealer $4.90-$5.00 per lb. (Oct 22, 1987). CAD…

Alberta-listed American Ore has reported a deficit of $9,390,795 for the six months ended June 30, compared with $8,049,966 during the same period last year. Revenues for the first six months of 1987 …

At a time when the recent stock market debacle has added to the list of available mineral properties in North America, a new player has joined the hunt for bargains. Armed with a war chest of approxim…

Drilling has commenced at Galveston Resources’ Murphy Lake mine in the Wawa area of Ontario. A minimum 20,000 ft of drilling is planned to block out reserves on the east and west zones. The first dril…

The Canadian Advisory Committee on Mining Automation, under chairman Jacques Nantel of Noranda, last week in Sudbury approved plans for the Third Canadian Symposium on Mining Automation. It will be he…

The Irish Republican Army casts a long shadow — even over a possible new Irish gold mine. A Dublin-based company, Ennex International (in which Toronto’s Northgate Exploration has a 15% direct and …

Vancouver-based Radcliffe Resources has concluded a joint venture agreement with City Resources involving Radcliffe’s Graham property on British Columbia’s Charlotte Islands. The Radcliffe property is…

Carlson Mines and partner Black Gregor Explorations have received some encouraging results from exploration at their Hemlo gold property north of Marathon, Ont. Located 12 miles northwest of the Lac-N…

“Is there anyone here who doubts there will a completely automated mine, somewhere in the world, in the near future?” panel member Ronald Woodbridge asked the 170 attendees of the second Canadian Symp…

Every available diamond drill in Newfoundland is under contract as Canada’s youngest province continues to enjoy its first gold rush. Major mineral exploration and development projects are going on in…

Even in the midst of a market downturn, nothing makes investors sit up and take notice like a new gold discovery. That was proven this week when a little-known oil and gas explorer called Argus Resour…