Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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The Vancouver market has moved back into neutral territory following yesterday’s 16-point loss. By presstime, the VSE index was up marginally to 1,860.6 pts and most issues were trading within narrow …

Partners Sikaman Gold Resources and Denison Mines recently received results from a prefeasibility study on their Bogosu concession in Ghana, West Africa. Sikaman has a 45% interest in the property, wh…

Too much money chasing too few goods. It’s the classic Keynesian definition of an economic phenomenon which, just seven short years ago, was on the lips of every economist and politician — inflation….

An $800,000 exploration program has been started on gold property in Dubuisson Twp. in northwestern Quebec, the president of Goldstack Resources, Herve Drolet, reports. The drilling is being undertake…

Drilling is scheduled to begin in August at Consort Energy’s West claim group near Echo Bay’s Lupin mine in the Northwest Territories. Surface gold values averaging 0.29 oz and 0.48 oz gold have been …

The ramp extension being driven to open up a second level on the No 3 vein system has advanced to 470 ft at the Chester Twp. gold property near Gogama, Ont., Chesbar Resources reports. Underground dri…

With only a 6-month leaching season to work with, it seems almost too good to be true but La Teko Resources is planning to heap leach some 13,000 oz of gold this year from its Ryan Lode gold deposit i…

Further details on the proposed merger of Placer Development, Dome Mines and Campbell Red Lake Mines are now available in a half-inch-thick information circular that is being mailed to shareholders. L…

Some preliminary results have been released by Zahavy Mines from its underground drilling program at its gold-silver-lead-zinc property in the Favourable Lake area of northwestern Ontario. Among the b…

Westley Mines reports it has leased 34 claims in southwest Oregon known as the Burnt-Peak project, covering a one-and-a-half mile strike length of a broad, northwesterly-trending gold-bearing zone in …

More than 20 holes, representing in excess of 10,000 ft, have been drilled to date on the snip gold prospect in the Ikut River area of B.C., Delaware Resources reports. The first-phase drilling has co…