Articles by Northern Miner Staff

An option to earn a 50% interest in the Bapst Twp. property owned by Fairfax Bay Resources in the Casa Berardi gold area in northwestern Quebec has been obtained by Yorbeau Resources. Yorbeau Presiden…

With a healthy funding package in place, activity is continuing at a brisk pace with seven drills in operation at the Aldermac and Lac Dufault prospects held in joint venture with Toronto-listed Nuins…

Underground exploration work on a section of the Lamaque gold property near Val d’Or, Que., has encountered visible gold in drift faces. Teck Exploration, which is performing the work funded by Tundra…

Week’s High Low Close Change PLATINUM (in US$ per oz.) March — — 523.40 + 4.70 April 525.50 518.40 524.40 + 4.50 July 531.0…

Well into the third month of the new year and still the pace of trading has not slackened. If anything it’s becoming even more hair- raising with records being shattered right left and centre. The com…

Tournigan Mining Explorations plans to raise net proceeds of $500,000 from a private placement which the company says will be added to its general working capital. As the company’s agent, Deacon, Morg…

A private company recently “gone public,” Eastmain Resources Inc. had its shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange this week. This company has been carrying out an ambitious exploration program for…

The following guest editorial on the vital subject of flow-through financing was written by John Playfair and Barry Dent, tax partners at Clarkson, Gordon, Toronto, and authors of a regular tax column…

Noranda Exploration plans to start work shortly on the Capricorn gold property at Rouyn, Que., following the lifting in late February of a court injunction preventing any work from being conducted. No…

While the market momentum has slowed somewhat, trading activity here is still the heaviest in years. Investors have started to take profits but the general market trend continues to be bullish, and wi…

Falconbridge Ltd. plans to spend $3 million over the next three years on new technologies designed to reduce acid rain-causing sulphur dioxide emissions from its copper- nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ont…

Favorable gold and silver drilling results have been reported by Teeshin Resources for its Dome Mountain project near Smithers, B.C. In Boulder zone one, the average grade of gold indicated was 0.44 o…