Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Durham Resources has agreed, subject to certain conditions, to acquire 1,292,735 common and 438,725 Class A shares of Oakwood Petroleums from Brian S. Ekstrom, Oakwood’s president and chief executive …

Henry L. Hill, a prominent consulting engineer and past president of the B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines, died recently in Vancouver in his 80th year. He founded his own consulting firm in 1944 and reti…

Tight-lipped Sigma Mines permitted Vior to release results of a super hole drilled on Vior’s Ligneris Twp. property. Hole 73 cut 40 ft grading 0.35 oz gold per ton, although results from some check as…

Drilling by equal partners Stroud Resources and Chevron Minerals has intersected gold mineralization 1,600 ft northwest of known mineralization on the Hislop property near Ramore, Ont. Located northwe…

Two closely associated companies in the I.C. Christopher camp — Honcho Gold Mines and Baden Explorations — have reached an agreement with Beaufield Resources Inc. which will see the latter carry out…

Mountain- West Resources says the 1986 agreement on its Elkhorn property with Homestake Mining has been restructured. The new agreement will allow Homestake to earn a 50% interest by spending $3 milli…

Queenstake Resources has optioned its Argus gold property near Bakersfield, Calif., to Childs International, a subsidiary of an Australian mining group. The company will be able to earn a 60% interest…

A special meeting of United Siscoe Mines to vote on a proposal to acquire a controlling interest in American Barrick Resources has been postponed indefinitely. A special meeting had been scheduled for…

Goldpost Resources, which recently hit a good hole on its Hislop East property in the Timmins area of Ontario,(N.M., Dec 22/86) and reports further encouraging results on the property, says that it is…

Naneco Resources continued to add on to last week’s gains, picking up another 30 cents to $2.30. The company is hoping to make a production decision this year on its Johnson Gulch gold property in So…

As much as $20-million worth of stock in Hemlo Gold Mines, one- fifth of the shares sold by Noranda Inc. in Europe, came back to Canada within two days of the initial public offering, estimates one in…

A study has been commissioned by Franco Nevada Mining Corp. to determine the feasibility of placing the Goldstrike and Post claims located in the Carlin area of Nevada into a U.S. Royalty Trust, says …