Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Some relatively high grade gold values have been reported from a breccia feeder system at Pioneer Metals’ Bonito property near Ruidoso, N.M. President Robert D. Willis confirms the system is “only one…

Global demand for palladium recovered last year to equal its record 1984 level of 2.96 million oz, Johnson Matthey reports in its publication Platinum 1987. Supply, however, ran ahead of demand for th…

Echo Bay Mines recorded a net income during the first quarter of this year of $8.1 million (18 cents per share) compared with $5.7 million (14 cents per share) for the same period in 1986. Total rev…

The following article was written exclusively for The Northern Miner by Mr Anderson, former chairman, Cominco Ltd. and now a director of Gensler & Schwab Inc., New York, management consultants, and Mr…

Bankers Petroleum has acquired 73 claims in Turnbull and Godfrey twps, near Timmins, Ont. One 43-claim block includes limited mine workings established between 1909-1911. A surface exploration program…

A trenching and surface diamond drilling program has been started by American Platinum Inc. on ground near Lac des Iles, Ont. Funded by a flow-through share offering with First Exploration Fund which …

A diamond drill program has been started by Fancamp Resources on the company’s Gamache Twp., Que., property. The property adjoins the Joe Mann gold mine brought into production this year by Meston Lak…

Drilling by Onitap Resources on the East Goldbrook property in Nova Scotia has encountered several zones of gold mineralization. A hole spotted 50 ft west of the old East Goldbrook shaft intersected f…

It’s difficult to be bullish these days about the price of gold, which seems to have settled into the $440-$450(US) per oz range. In fact, the precious metal, which in May seemed on its way to the $50…

The fourth International Tungsten Symposium, sponsored by Canada Tungsten Mining, is scheduled to take place Sept 7-10 in Vancouver. Organizers of the conference are the Primary Tungsten Association a…

Some highly encouraging results are starting to come in from the underground exploration-development work now in full swing at the Vedron-Belmoral Mines joint venture project in the heart of the Timmi…

Gerald Merrithew, Federal Minister of State for Mines “Many people expected the bottom to fall out, but that certainly did not happen. In fact the mining industry received some very special treatmen…