Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Rene Fontaine, who resigned about a year ago under a conflict-of- interest cloud as Ontario minister of northern development and mines, has returned to the provincial cabinet fold, this time as minist…

Golden Range Resources says it has optioned 116 units or about 7,200 acres some 40 air miles from Revelstoke, B.C., and can earn a 100% undivided interest by spending $500,000 over five years, and mak…

Satisfied with the results of its phase one exploration program on its Munro Twp. property north of Kirkland Lake, Ont., White-Guyatt Mining says it will proceed with phase two of the program which in…

Vancouver-based Goldenbell Resources is still awaiting the results of an enviromental study before it can proceed to production at its Pine Tree gold property in Mariposa Cty., Calif. Assuming it is g…

Toronto-based Westfield Minerals, is expanding its exploration and mining activities to include a 35% interest in a large Chilean heap leach mine. Nearly four months after negotiations were first anno…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Oct. — — 81.40 — Dec. 81.50 80.90 81.15 + 0.95 Mar. 80.00 …

A former National Hockey League player says he is about to succeed where a number of companies have failed by turning the old Goldbeam mine at West Hawk Lake, Man., into a commercial gold producer. Af…

Sept. 29 Sept. 28 Sept. 25 Sept. 24 Sept. 23 Gold London Bullion Dealers afternoon (morning) $US per oz. 459.40(458.90) 460.85(460.90) 461.80(461.00) 464.00(463.85) 462.40(461.05) Gold Bank of Nov…

With all the hydrothermal activity taking place deep beneath this popular tourist area a short jaunt from Vancouver, it’s not surprising that somebody has discovered a gold deposit nearby. The propert…

Moneta Porcupine Mines — Dennis MacLeod has been appointed to the board of directors.

Abruptly closed in 1969, the old Mount Nansen gold mine is now being looked at seriously by Chevron Canada and Vancouver-based B.Y.G Resources. From a distance it still looks like an operating mine an…

Vancouver-based Fleck Resources has signed an agreement with Coventry Ventures to earn a 55% interest in Coventry’s Bedivere Lake platinum project near Thunder Bay, Ont. Under the terms of the agreeme…