THE GRADUATING CLASS
The gold exploration boom that began in the late 1970s continues to beget new mi nes — 12 of them in the latest graduating class. Considering the thousands of p roperties explored each year and the m…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Malartic drift entering Orion ore
The No 8 zone at the Orion gold property is expected to be reached by an underground drift within days, Malartic Hygrade Gold Mines says. Located less than a mile northeast of the Camflo-Malartic gold…
Omni launces underground work
An underground development program is under way at Omni Resources’ Skukum Creek gold property in the southern Yukon. A 1,500-ft adit is being driven into what is thought to represent the main gold-sil…
Toronto Stock Exchange Market prices take another wild spin upwards
The market chalked up yet another wild week with the composite 300 tacking on 107.81 pts to new- high at 3,354.3. Golds provided part of the impetus mid-week as the price of gold on commodity markets …
Roxmark drilling Magnet mine bet
Half of a 10,300-ft drill prorgam has been completed by Roxmark Mines on the company’s property near Geraldton, Ont. Located in Errington Twp., the property includes the old Magnet mine shaft and unde…
Abermin should benefit from Aberford/Encor merger
A merger between Aberford Resources and Encor Energy (formerly Dome Canada) is expected to benefit Vancouver-based Abermin Corp. According to Roger P. Taylor, Abermin president, the proposed merger wi…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Kent Process Control
New Jersey-based Kent Process Control, a manufacturing company known for developing such process control instruments as chart recorders and flow-meters, has ex panded its U.S. headquarters. Kent has m…
Better Resources builds reserves
Better Resources has come up with a drill- indicated reserve estimate for its Mt. Washington gold property on Vancouver Island. The reserves include some 194,700 tons at 0.23 oz gold and 0.99 oz silve…
Report from Papua New Guinea Placer Pacific gold jewel in the crown
Events and achievements in minerals exploration in 1986 confirmed Papua New Guinea as one of the places to be for gold explorationists and producers alike. Precious metals exploration activity rose to…
Bighorn options Sulphurets bet
Bighorn Development Corp. has acquired an option from Catear Resources and a private Calgary- based company to earn up to 60% interest of approximately 54,000 acres in the Sulphurets area of British C…
Renowned Canadian geologist Duncan Derry dies
Duncan R. Derry, eminent economic geologist and one of the Canadian mining industry’s leading spokesmen, died suddenly in Toronto this week. Indeed, he was known internationally for his many contribut…
The Graduating Class 1987 GOLD REPORT MACLELLAN
SherrGold Inc.’s MacLellan mine, Snear Lynn Lake, Man., is the hands- down winner of the “Most Fiesty Mine of 1986” award. And for good reasons. Not only w as the decision to put the gold deposit into…