Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Work will start immediately on an optioned 28-claim property in Haines Twp., about 100 km west- northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., according to a report by Gowest Amalgamated Resources. Gowest has option…

Regarding the photo (of the old Bruce Mines, Ontario’s earliest copper producer) in the Sept 28 issue of The Northern Miner. I prospected the Bruce Mines area over 20 years ago and had a few hangovers…

News that Ateba Mines has started milling operations at its Beardmore, Ont. gold properties sparked considerable investor interest in the Toronto based company. On a day when volumes were well down, …

Drilling continues at the Normetal property of Normetal Mining Exploration in northwestern Quebec, where results from two holes have been made available. Hole 87-18, over a true width of 22.1 ft, retu…

Another 33,000 ft of drilling is planned by Minnova Inc. on its Samatosum property in the Kamloops area of B.C. The program is under way and three drills are being utilized. One of the rigs is drillin…

In a bid to increase reserves at Pan East Resources’ Fifteen Mile Stream property in Nova Scotia, Greenstrike Gold Corp. and Petromet Resources have expanded their evaluation program at the property. …

“It’s just a tremendous victory” boomed an elated Murray Pezim, whose very name is synonymous with Corona and Hemlo, on learning that Ontario’s Court of Appeal had unanimously rejected an appeal by La…

Shortly after it was announced that International Corona Resources had won control of the Page- Williams gold mine at Hemlo, Ont. (see separate story, page 1), a swarm of news releases flew out of 155…

Gross proceeds from a recently completed public offering of 1.35 million class A units and 2 million class B units were $6,105,000, Goldteck Mines reports. Each class A unit consists of one 1987 depos…

Miners have been pulling gold ore out of the ground here for more than 75 years. But the excitement of finding new gold orebodies has never been stronger than it is today — thanks largely to the Pamo…

While the terms of the new Canada, U.S. Free Trade agreement are still shrouded in generalities, a number of top mining officials were expressing guarded optimism regarding its effect on the industry….

Gold has been poured at Black Swan Gold Mines’ Gabanintha project in Western Australia. The $12-million(A) development is expected to produce about 40,000 oz gold per year, 25% of which will go to Bla…