Articles by Northern Miner Staff

They look like any other factory in one of suburban Toronto’s sprawling industrial parks … until you try to get past the reception desk. Without a coded card, no one can get to the back of the plant…

This month Canamax Resources will officially open its Bell Creek gold mine at Timmins, Ont. It’s not a huge mine (about 300 tons per day), but it’s significant for several reasons. For one, it’s the f…

An extensive collection of rock and mineral samples, donated by Mrs Cliff Vickery of Toronto, has become a permanent attraction at Sudbury’s Science North. The complete collection consists of more tha…

Strata Energy Corp. has changed its name to U.S. Platinum Inc. (upt:vse) on a share for share basis.

Both till and rock sampling have located a number of areas of anomalous high gold values on the Wolverine Pond — Trap Pond — Flatwater Pond assemblage of 1,647 claims in the Baie Verte area of Newfo…

TEXT: Cominco Resources International spent $1.9 million on various exploration projects during its first quarter of operation. Feasibility work was also in progress at three projects: Topaz berylliu…

Management of the North American Rare Metals — Dundee-Palliser joint venture Vezza gold project 25 km south of Matagami, Que., are highly encouraged with the findings in the latest hole in its 1987 s…

Reserves at the end of July stood at more than one million tons at the Renabie Gold Mines’ property in northern Ontario, where significant gold values have been returned at the 3,930-ft level and a $3…

What probably represents one of the least promoted platinum group metal discoveries in the country has yielded some impressive results. Equinox Resources and Technigen Corp. have completed an extensiv…

Westar Mining had a 6-month loss of $3.5 million compared to $3.1 million for the same period in 1986. The company’s second quarter loss of $8.1 million was almost identical to the previous year’s. Ac…

A record breaking seven-month period, has witnessed volumes of 424,819,000 shares changing hands, the Alberta Stock Exchange has reported. That compares a record 369,367,000 shares during the same per…

North American Metals Corp. says it has an agency agreement with Montagu Financing, of London, England, for Montagu to effect a private placement of 1.5 million shares of North American, at $6.75 per …