Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The market correction in Vancouver has pummelled speculative gold stocks and some of the more “blue chip,” issues as well. Yesterday the VSE index tumbled 44.3 points and today it was down another 8.5…

First phase of a $7.8-million underground development program at the joint-venture Favourable Lake gold-silver project in northwestern Ontario, north of Red Lake, is under way. Partners in the venture…

Quest Energy Corp. has changed its name to pch Post Career Habitats Inc. on a 1-new-for-2-old share basis.

New Mexico based Alotta Re- sources is set to begin work on a number of properties in the Val d’Or, Que., area. According to President Albert Applegath, the company has optioned 21 claims known as the…

For those who missed the original Porcupine Gold Rush, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada is offering local athletes the chance to relive history. Organizers of the fourth Annual Gre…

Initial drill findings by Stewart Lake Resources on its Kirkham flake graphite project in Bedford Twp., 25 miles north of Kingston are fully confirming the high grade nature of the deposit, The Northe…

Mine equipment manufacturers are continually bombarded with ideas for innovative mining machines. The flow of ideas combined with new computer technology makes the possibilities for new equipment limi…

International Shasta Resources has a letter of intent with Esso Minerals Canada, whereby Esso can earn a 70% interest in Shasta’s Toodoggone, B.C. gold property. To earn the interest, Esso could devel…

After the 1986 start-up of two properties and a third this year, Pegasus Gold Corp., is flying high, President James Foreman told shareholders at the annual meeting. “It has been an extraordinary feat…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 70.00 cents -73.00 cents per lb. (May 14, 1987). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.18-$1.23 per lb. (May 14, 1987). BISMUTH: New York dealer $3.05-$3.15 per lb. (May 14, 1987). CAD…

A student at McGill University, Montreal, has become the first mining engineering student to win the Prix d’Excellence of the Order of Engineers of Quebec. Brigitte Lacouture will graduate in June. Th…

A decision on possible production may not be far away at the Silbak Premier/Big Missouri gold- silver project in northwestern British Columbia, Canacord Resources reports in a recent interim report. T…