Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Mechanical stripping and rock sampling is under way on the Ore Chimney mine property, located eight miles north of Kaladar, Ont. The program, financed by Sands Minerals Corp. of Toronto, is being done…

Geologists for Delbridge Mines are starting to piece together the geology of the DeSantis property in Turnbull Twp., near Timmins, Ont. The company reports encouraging assays of 0.15 oz and 0.06 oz go…

A $200,000 drilling program is scheduled to begin later this month at the Victoria Lake base metals property located about four miles from Schreiber in northwestern Ontario, Cumberland Resources’ Pres…

For investors on the look-out for a company with excellent exposure to Canadian gold exploration and future gold production of between 50,000 and 100,000 oz annually, Davidson Partners Ltd. recommends…

The board of directors of Saxton Industries has announced a number of appointments and resignations. Austin P. Page, formerly vice- president and chief financial officer of Saxton Industries and Saxto…

The Saskatchewan Mining Development Corp. has released some encouraging results from its Tamar Lake joint venture property in the La Ronge Greenstone belt of northern Saskatchewan. Located just south …

The severe blow to flow-through shares caused by the recent white paper on tax reform was not fully intended by the government, and affected companies should push for changes as soon as possible, acco…

A junior mining company that until now has been playing a rather low-key role, San Paulo Explorations is teaming up with Teck Corp. for a new look at the renowned old Leitch mine in the now-bustling B…

William Watt Hutchison, president of the International Union of Geological Sciences and assistant deputy minister for the Geological Survey of Canada, has died in Ottawa of cancer. He was 52. Dr Hutch…

Base metals are back, and no better sign of investor confidence in these issues could be found than the trading activity exhibited this week on the tse by four mining companies heavily involved in the…

At long last investors and speculators alike are once again turning their attention to the highly cyclical base metals stocks, triggered by improving prices for these commodities in international mark…

The degree of polarization in British Columbia politics has generally exceeded that of other provinces. So the present dispute between organized labor and Premier William Vander Zalm over his controve…