Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A joint-venture agreement has been entered into by Aur Resources and Rogi Exploration whereby Rogi may earn a 40% interest in Aur’s Annamaque-Faraday property, about 7 mi southeast of Val d’Or, Que., …

American Ore reports it has pooled its lands in the Iskut River area of northwestern B.C. with those of Golden Band Resources in the area, under an agreement made between American Ore, Golden Band, an…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 70.00 cents -72.50 cents per lb. (May 28, 1987). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.18-$1.23 per lb. (May 14, 1987). BISMUTH: New York dealer $3.30-$3.40 per lb. (May 28, 1987). CAD…

Toronto-based NSR Resources has entered into an agreement with Middlefield Resources Ltd. to raise 2.8 million for its share of an exploration program on the Rand Malartic gold property in Fourniere T…

A program of line cutting, geophysical and first phase of a diamond drilling program is planned by Alberta-listed Energy International Overseas Corp. on its newly- acquired Bernier group of claims nea…

Spot closing prices in Pound Sterling per tonne Date June 9 June 8 June 5 June 4 June 3 Copper 951-952 957-958 913-914 946-947 938-939 Lead 371-373 38…

Placer Development has agreed to sell 4.82 million common shares of Equity Silver Mines to Dominion Securities and Nesbitt Thomson Deacon as underwriters. Price of the shares will be $12.50 each. Plac…

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…