Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Trading on the coats system is proving to be a big success. For the month of July, data shows that volume totalled more than 43 million shares for a value of $138.2 million. One of the more active iss…

Orofino Resources of Toronto has begun a 4,000-ft diamond drilling program on two joint venture properties at Vermillion Lake, near Mine Center in northwestern Ontario. Part of a major shear zone and …

One of Canada’s most famous economic geologists, William Harvey Gross, has died. Dr. Gross, who was born in New Westminster, B.C., in 1917, first became interested in mining while working as a mucker …

The entire Geraldton-Beardmore greenstone belt, which in its heyday boasted a dozen producers that turned out over four million ounces of gold, is once again bustling under a full-scale exploration bo…

Trading continues to be active but with gold hovering at $460- $465(US) and supposedly poised to make a run at $500, investors seem to be taking a moment for reflection. The vse index on the week clos…

Consolidated Reactor Uranium Mines, (which plans to change its name to Canaustra Gold Exploration), says it has started a phase-1 exploration program on its gold prospect in Ontario’s Hemlo area. The …

A joint venture is being arranged between California Gold Mines and Pegasus Gold for the purpose of placing the Stewart Outcrop zone into production on California Gold’s 100%-owned Zaca property locat…

Gold exploration at mid-summer has been marked by new companies emerging on the Atlantic Canada mining scene and an established company expanding its operations into another industry. Atlantic Goldfie…

Diamond drilling by Levon Resources and Veronex Resources, has intersected high grade gold values from their Howard tunnel project in B.C. Hole 19 cut a 15-ft section grading 2.48 oz gold per ton. Hol…

The heady times on the Toronto Stock Exchange continued for yet another week as records fell like ten pins. The tse 300 composite index flew past its previous record (set last week) to 4,104.98 at tod…

What started out a quiet week has ended up on a high note, with the general index of the Montreal Exchange, the market portfolio, rolling to a new high of 2,051.22 pts. The mining and minerals index, …

Production from the Dome Mountain property near Smithers, B.C., is expected to begin by next summer, Teeshin Resources says. Teeshin holds a 37.5% fully diluted interest in the project. The remaining …