Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Dolphin plans $3 million surface/underground work

Significant gold and silver mineralization has been discovered by Dolphin Exploration on its Cape Ray project in southwestern Newfoundland. The best results were from two drill holes in the Windowglas…


Vatican in the gold business

Investors should soon be able to buy 3-ounce gold reproductions of gold seals that are iconographic treasures, found in secret archives in the basement of the Vatican in Rome. The seals, said to make …


Cusac is set to produce at a new gold structure

Cusac Industries says a second major structure has been scheduled for production at its Table Mountain property near Cassiar, B.C. The company says this is one of six gold-bearing veins found in 1986 …


Editorial Duncan R. Derry

With the passing this week of Duncan Derry, this country has lost a highly respected ambassador of Canadian economic geology — the very engine that powers this mining industry of ours. Certainly his …


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…


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…



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…


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