Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Two diamond drills are being moved to Tundra Gold Mines’ platinum- palladium prospect on the Labrador Trough (Permit area No 737) and should be operating before month-end, the company advises. What it…

Pressing labor problems in South Africa, which in 1986 produced half of the gold in the non- communist world, may soon have a profound effect on the price of the precious metal. The National Union of …

Politicians and academics have long played lip service to something they call “technology transfer” — making sure the discoveries that are made in our research institutions are introduced to our mine…

The 7th international conference on Ground Control in Mining is scheduled for Aug 3-5, 1988, at Morgantown, West Virginia. Papers to be presented at the conference are being invited in the field of gr…

Women still make up less than one per cent of the workforce in the Nova Scotia mining industry, although they are slowly becoming more involved, Cape Breton Development Corp. coal geologist Heather Ma…

Drilling is scheduled to begin within the month on Lord River Gold Mines’ Pellaire property 120 miles north of Vancouver. Cons. Silver Standard Mines is the company’s largest shareholder with a 41% in…

Entering into an agreement, subject to regulatory approval, for the joint exploration and development of the Beaufor property in Pascalis Twp. in northwestern Quebec are Perron Gold Mines and D’Or Val…

Gunnar Gold and Mill City Gold have entered into a lease agreement with Horizon Gold Shares of Evergreen, Colo., to evaluate the Ute Creek property near Idaho Springs, Colo. The lease calls for minimu…

If shareholders of CME Capital Inc. approve the transaction at a special meeting to be called shortly, this company will take over control of Pine Bell Mines. The proposal is to acquire l,950,000 shar…

A recent share issue raised $340,000 for Mid-North Resources of Calgary. The company sold 500,000 common shares at 68 cents per share, with the accompanying 250,000 warrants being exercisable at 75 c…

Geologist Michael Riddell says his tse-listed company, Coxheath Gold Holdings of Halifax, is going to tread very softly exploring a gold property in Nova Scotia, near the town of Bridgewater. Located …

Geologist William Young is confident his company, Northumberland Mines will give New Brunswick its first, albeit small, full- fledged precious metals mine within a year. The provincial government has …