Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Investors are taking a hard look at secondary markets because blue chip gold stocks on the tse and elsewhere are getting a bit expensive. As a result Vancouver has turned extremely bullish and its mar…

Queenstake Resources is raising up to $600,000 for exploration of its B.C. and Yukon precious metal properties, the company reports. The funds, resulting from a financing agreement with NIM and Co. Lt…

Power Explorations intends to conduct additional exploration on ground held by Jaeger Resources in the Opapimiskan Lake area of northwestern Ontario. The 99- claim property is shared equally by the tw…

Project financing has been secured by Pioneer Metals for its Puffy Lake gold mine, 45 miles northeast of Flin Flon, Man. Debt- free, and with $4 million in working capital (excluding the financing), P…

A series of shallow drill holes have been completed by Lacana Mining Corp. on the California Lake project, south of Bathurst, N.B. Partners include American Ore, Sparton Resources and Lynx-Canada Expl…

High purity separated rare earths are the key to growth in the rare earths industry, Roskill News reports in a recent bulletin. “With prices up to one thousand times those of mixed rare earth compound…

Blackberry Gold Resources says that drilling and test pitting have indicated 820,000 cu m of gold-platinum- bearing gravels on its property near Princeton, B.C. Values range from $1.27 to $7.22 per m …

An exploration budget in excess of $1.4 million is being evaluated by Golden Rule Resources and Manson Creek Resources for the Toodoggone area of north-central B.C., says Manson Creek President Glen H…

With some excellent gold properties and a working capital of approximately $8.9 million, Getty Resources should be a key player on the Canadian exploration front this year. The company went public las…

I am now receiving my Northern Miner regularly and was sure glad to see that story on platinum. It will be helpful with my research as to investing in that metal. I hold some shares in Boston Bay Mine…

The Bay Street bull has come down with a walloping case of spring fever and no one’s looking for a cure. The beast barrelled ahead 118.87 pts on the composite 300 this week, with more than half that a…

An underground exploration program budgeted at $7.1 million, has been proposed for Abitibi Resources, Bevcon-Buffadison property near Val d’Or, Que. Abitibi and affiliate company Mid-Canada Gold & Cop…