Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A 22-hole diamond drill program totalling 6,750 ft has been completed on the Golden Grove flake graphite deposit located northeast of Saint John, N.B., by Vancouver- listed Glenvet Resources. The dril…

With revenues totalling some $63.7 million, Equity Silver Mines managed to post a modest profit of $22,000 last year, compared to $230,000 in 1985. Fourth-quarter earnings of $605,000 offset losses in…

One only has to look at the numbers to see that this past January was a hair-curling month on the Toronto Stock Exchange. With 603.1 million shares trading hands that month, a new all- time record was…

Before the wheels fell off the platinum bandwagon earlier this year, the price of the precious-industrial metal reached as high as $670(US) per oz. Its slump to $460 was quick but it was far from pain…

The Adams Club, McGill University’s department of geological sciences, will be host of a symposium March 6 in the Royal Bank auditorium, Place Ville Marie, Montreal. It’s titled Ore Deposits in Metamo…

It looked like a Who’s Who of mining the other night at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre, when ballerina Vanessa Harwood gave her final performance with the National Ballet of Canada. Amongst the appreciative…

The sharp differences between Opawica Explorations Inc., vendor of the Lac Shortt gold mine property of Corp. Falconbridge Copper, and that company surfaced during a lengthy annual meeting of Opawica …

Goldenbell Resources says that Pathfinder Gold of San Francisco has elected not to participate in further development of the Pine Tree gold project. The option agreement expired on Jan 30 and both com…

Augmitto Explorations has settled a form of agreement with Laurence Prust and Co. for a private placement to be effected with up to 12 institutional investors in England. The agreement calls for the i…

The first two rounds from drifting completed by partners Chesbar Resources and Murgold Resources have returned high grade gold assays. The work is being carried out on the Chester Twp., Ont., property…

Including for the first time its 50% share from the David Bell mine in Ontario’s famed Hemlo camp, Teck Corp. moved its profit ahead a healthy 20% to $6.5 million or 12 cents per share for the first …

I would like to draw your attention to an error in the article McGill, Polytech plan co-op course in mining engineering, in the Jan 26 issue of The Northern Miner. The concluding paragraph in that art…