Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Rumours of a presidential heart attack in conjunction with concerns about the future health of the U.S. dollar sent volumes careering headlong into what market watchers will hope is a temporary slump….

Westmin Resources of Vancouver has indicated that production on a major new gold/silver operation near Stewart in northwestern B.C. could begin as early as December 1988. Following an extensive diamon…

Some heavyweights are moving into the Peat Resources picture, The Northern Miner gathers from conversation with the company’s president, Leon La Prairie. Inco Ltd., Esso Resources Canada and Lacana Mi…

Assay results from the most recent round of exploration drill holes at the northern edge of the Cove deposit on the McCoy property in Nevada have added significantly to geological reserves, Echo Bay M…

There is a possibility of a dispute in the Canadian postal service within the next few weeks, which would disrupt mail service. Should this happen, subscribers in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver may o…

Practical Problems in Exploration Geochemistry by A. A. Levinson, University of Calgary; P. M. D. Bradshaw and I. Thomson, Placer Development Ltd. Hardcover, 269 pages, ISBN 0-915834-05 $7. 80(US) App…

A production decision is expected this fall for the Marte gold project owned by Cominco Resources and a subsidiary of Anglo American Corp. The decision will follow the completion of a feasibility stud…

Abitibi Metal Mines, a small, Montreal-listed junior (not to be confused with Abitibi Resources), is very optimistic about mining 500,000 tons of what it calls probable ore, on a 6-claim property nort…

Perhaps being a few thousand miles away from its east-coast stock market counterparts, where jittery investors seem to be behind much of the current volatility, can be advantageous for the Vancouver e…

The largest producer of copper in the United States, Phelps Dodge, reports it is exploring a potentially significant copper deposit near Brisbee, Ariz. The copper mineralization lies north of the aban…

After a 17-year career with Cominco, which ended in frustration four years ago, Dr Ian Mason is excited about doing geology again. He’s onto something, here on the north shore of Lake Athabaska. But i…

What’s bad for the rest of the business community is not always bad for gold. The battered U.S. buck, which took a beating this week following increased worries about the burgeoning U.S. trade deficit…