Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Chances are good that most of the Thompson committee’s proposals for a new securities policy for resource financing in Ontario will be approved, according to the general counsel for the Ontario Securi…

The Golden Bear project near Dease Lake, B.C., is proving to be one of the more exciting exploration plays in the province. North American Metals is conducting a major underground drilling program the…

Encouraging gold values have been received by Can America Precious Metals on a property held under option from Cochrane Oil & Gas. Located in the Manitou Lakes area in northwestern Ontario, the proper…

Although the company reported a positive cash flow, Gibraltar Mines posted a net loss of $4.6 million or 40 cents per share in 1986, compared to a restated loss of $246,000 in 1985. A. J. Petrina, pr…

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…