Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Northquest Ventures has acquired an option to earn a 25% interest in a gold prospect located in Chester Twp., Ont. Situated 25 km southwest of Gogama, the property was acquired from Westport Resources…

There is, perhaps, nothing more fundamental to mining than ore reserves, yet, at the same time, there is no other single item in mining that causes so much argument, disagreement and outright confusio…

Coats-listed Bay Resources and Services has optioned a 16-claim property, called the Fontana property, located in Duverny Twp., Que. to an affiliated private company called Stratmin Inc. Bay holds a 7…

Mineral exploration expenditures in northern Saskatchewan will reach $55 million in 1987, with $18 million to uranium, $2.3 million to base metals and $34.5 million to precious metals. Exploration exp…

Most exploration by junior mining companies in the Northwest Territories is for gold in Archean supracrustal rocks of the Slave Structural Province. There are four main areas where activity is current…

Drilling on a former producing property at Harrigan Cove, N.S., by Torene Gold Exploration has indicated 100,000 tons in three zones grading 0.36 oz gold per ton. Average depth so far is 300 ft. Signi…

Beaver Resources says a recent trenching program has extended the ore zone at its producing Kramer Hills heap leach property in California. The zone has been expanded to the south and east with a subs…

The Vancouver Stock Exchange in recent years has built an image of diversity, increasing the percentage of its junior industrial and high technology listings to almost 35%, even while it was significa…

High fliers for the week on the coats system continued to be Boston Bay Mines and Belleterre Quebec Mines. The issues continued at $pd $1.40 respectively. Boston Bay vended its Lac des Iles platinum g…

Canadian Gold Resources and Monte Carlo Gold Mines report some encouraging values from a drill program on the Dik Dik mine property just north of Jellicoe, Ont. The two companies say assays received r…

Anglo Dominion Gold Exploration reports a net loss in the first quarter of $1,400,000, compared with earnings in the similar period last year of $17,400. The company says the loss in the latest period…

A 20,000-ft drilling program has started on Kerr Addison’s Joutel Twp. property in Val d’Or, Que. Following a promising gold discovery on the 1,066-acre property, project manager Onyx Resources can ea…