Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The new president of the Association of Professional Geologists and Geophysicists of Quebec (apggq) is France Goupil. An engineer and geophysicist, Goupil won the Dominique-Rollin Award of Excellence…

The family of Sir Julius Chan, deputy prime minister of Papua New Guinea, is reported to have made a profit of $1.4 million(A) through the 1986 initial share offering of Placer Pacific, a company cont…

The same excitement and zest for making mineral discoveries that characterizes the juniors is still shared by Teck’s exploration arm. In the comfortable Vancouver office of John May, president of Tec…

Teck Corp. holds 34 coal licences in an area about 40 km to the northwest of the Bullmoose mine. Burnt River coal is ranked as semi-anthracite and 30-40 million tonnes of reserves could be recovered b…

The euphoria, though less feverish than in the early 1980s, is still with us. You can feel it in the office towers on Bay Street and you can almost taste it in the booming towns of northwestern Ontar…

Exploration is slated for the Kowkash project following an agreement-in-principle reached between Montreal-listed Bruneau Mining Corp., Toronto-listed Canamax Resources and Tashogan Minerals, a privat…

The sizzling market in gold shares cooled its heels this week as investors, not surprisingly, devoted themselves to profit-taking. The gold and silver index dropped 80.57 pts over the week to close at…

Gold is not the only game in town. Ever since the Soviets suspended shipments of graphite to the non- communist world back in 1981, prices for the black, crystalline carbon have risen to as high as $1…

Five gold-bearing pods have been partly delimited by J.A.G. Mines at its Malartic property in northwestern Quebec, following drilling at 19 sites. The pods are contained in a structure 4,000 ft long a…

Drifting by Teck Corp. on property held under option by Tundra Gold Mines near the former producing Lamaque mine, continues to yield encouraging results. Work from the 3,200-ft level of the Val d’Or, …

Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) April — — 63.30 + 0.75 May 63.70 63.25 63.35 + 0.75 July 63.4…

American Platinum Inc. has optioned its Rottenstone Lake platinum group metals property to Placer Development. Located in Saskatchewan, the Rottenstone property will be drilled by Placer this year. Pl…