EDITOR’S NOTE Improving Efficiency
Canada’s mineral extraction industry is based on the favorable geology with which the country was blessed, but it is people who developed the industry into one of the bulwarks of the national economy,…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Many reasons to buy in platinum, firm says
Why invest in platinum? According to Johnson Matthey Ltd., a Canadian refiner and assayer of precious metals, there are plenty of reasons. Platinum is the rarest and most precious of metals. Eight ton…
PRODUCER PRICES (March 30, 1987)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 62.50 cents -64.00 cents per lb. (Mar 5, 1987). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.10-$1.14 per lb. (Mar 12, 1987). BISMUTH: New York dealer $2.50-$2.70 per lb. (Feb 26, 1987). CADM…
Mountain Lk. gets low grade values
Low grade gold values are being encountered over a large area controlled by Mountain Lake Resources. Located near Kenora, Ont., the Mountain Lake ground, the company believes, has potential for hostin…
Funds in place
An arrangement to finance a $3-million exploration program during 1987 by placement of flow- through common shares to three funds has been announced by Wrightbar Mines. The funds involved are CMP 1987…
Toronto Stock Exchange Another madcap week with gold stealing the
The golds stole the show for yet another wild and woolly week on Bay Street. An amazing 445.55 pts was netted by the gold and silver index this week to close at an all time high of 7,888.71. With gain…
Jascan earns interest in gold project
Jascan Resources has gained a 60% interest in the Dawson project, which has about one million tons of drill-indicated reserves grading 0.15 oz gold per ton, acquired from U.S. Borax & Chemical Corp. b…
Letter to the Editor Too much on Pezim?
I feel compelled to question The Northern Miner’s emergence as The Daily Telegraph of the mining world. Isn’t the amount of space and the ongoing repetition that you have accorded (Murray) Pezim’s juv…
Kinbauri drilling gets weak results
Drilling on several properties held by Kinbauri Gold Corp. has yielded marginal results. On the company’s Morrisette property northeast of Kirkland Lake, Ont., one hole intersected a zone of anomalous…
People (March 30, 1987)
Western Canadian Mining Corp. — J. Douglas Little appointed president.
News in Brief (March 30, 1987)
Signet Resources has changed its name to New Signet Resources Inc. on a basis of 1 new for 4 old shares.
Silvera encounters gold mineralization
Gold mineralization has been encountered during a drill program on its Wapiyao Lake property in the La Ronge gold belt area of Saskatchewan, reports Silvera Resources President Jan H. Schutze. A total…