Articles by Northern Miner Staff

As predicted last year, 1986 was an exciting year for Teck Corp. and 1987 should be even better. The Casa Berardi area will continue to be one of the major centres of activity. Inco (60%) and Golden K…

Brian Fairbank has founded a new consulting firm, Fairbank Engineering, which provides geological engineering and field services for mining, industrial mineral and geothermal development and explorati…

Several changes have been made to the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan’s board of directors, chief of which is the appointment of Paul Schoenhals as the new chairman. Schoenhals replaces Cliff Wrig…

Greenshields & Co. of Montreal has announced an offering of 30,000 shares of stock in Placer Development, a British Columbia incorporation specializing in the investigation and development of gold pla…

When Denison Mines Chairman Stephen B. Roman stands up and tells a packed room of shareholders that he has no grand strategy for the company, one only has to look at the bottom line to see otherwise. …

Rayrock Yellowknife Resources and Discovery West Corp. are related through intercompany shareholdings and are active in minerals and oil-and-gas production and exploration. Discovery is a new company …

Orofino Resources says it is looking at the possibility that its wholly- owned Scadding gold property about 20 miles northeast of Sudbury, Ont., could go into production by the end of this year. The c…

Imperial Metals has picked up an 18.7% beneficial interest in the Crow Butte in-situ uranium deposit in Nebraska. With reserves estimated at over 40 million lb and capital/ operating costs expected to…

Toronto-listed Acadia Mineral Ventures has $5.4 million in flow- through money “locked in” to finance some major exploration work in Nova Scotia over the next 12 months. Commitments have been received…

An improved fourth quarter allowed Brunswick Mining and Smelting to cut its 1986 loss to $6.9 million, compared with a loss of $5.6 million in 1985. Net earnings during the last quarter of 1986 were $…

The fast-moving, gold-oriented Hughes-Lang Group of Companies kept its corporate growth- through-gold strategy well in place during 1986. The schedule for exploration and anticipated production in 198…

I read with interest your recent editorial on the changing times and the role that the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, (CANMET), must play in the future. I thought I would write to le…