Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The first results are out on the diamond drilling program on the South American platinum bet controlled by a Consolidated TVX Mining Corp. company called CNM. Though TVX President Ian W. Telfer says a…

Two additional gold-bearing zones have been discovered in the current diamond drilling program on Parquet Resources’ 2,000-acre gold property in Courville Twp., in the Val d’Or area of Quebec. The H z…

Hole 73 drilled on Vior Mining Exploration’s Ligneris Twp. property in northwestern Quebec has returned 40 ft grading 0.35 oz gold per ton says President Claude St. Jacques. Other economic values were…

Falconbridge Ltd. says it will raise $13.2 million in flow-through funds to finance Canadian exploration expenditures on the company’s properties this year. Falconbridge says it has an agreement with …

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…