Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A joint venture agreement to explore and develop 4,396 acres in Maizerets Twp., in northwestern Quebec has been entered by Imco Resources and Sigma Mines (Quebec). Under the terms of the agreement, Si…

Gold-bearing mineralization has been discovered in two anomaly- testing diamond drill holes located 4,500 ft west of a gold zone being developed at the Granges Exploration and MacMillan Energy Corp.’s…

Spirit Lake Explorations has raised $100,000 through the private placement of 58,825 shares at a price of $1.70 per share. There are warrants with this stock to purchase an equal number of shares at $…

Torene Gold Exploration plans another 10,000 ft of drilling on its Harrington Cove gold property in Nova Scotia, following results of an initial 3,000-ft program that returned six intersections in fou…

Mining in the NWT should continue to chart a steady course through 1987, says David Nutter, general manager of the Northwest Territories Chamber of Commerce. And, he says, gold will largely be respons…

Next week’s issue will include complete range tables of all 1986 trading in the shares of mining companies listed on the Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Alberta stock exchanges, together with high-lo…

A $300,000 exploration program is slated for Toronto-listed Onitap Resources’ Nova Scoita mining properties to be completed by Feb 28, 1987. The 37 contiguous claims which include four former gold pro…

Cobalt has proved to be one of the most volatile of minerals in the past year, due largely to the shifting sands of African politics rather than purely economic factors. “Cobalt carries more geopoliti…

Drilling by partners Glen Auden Resources and Adola Mining has yielded encouraging results from their Taylor Twp., Ont., gold prospect. Located east of Timmins, the property covers a section of the De…

Canadian production of refined copper in September increased to 47,014 tonnes from 42,040 tonnes in September, 1985. Primary copper production decreased to 62,702 tonnes from 63,570 tonnes. Gold produ…

With so many in the industry jockeying for position over the past 12 months, 1986 may well go down in mining history as the year of the asset shuffle. More than one observer no doubt has been left scr…

The construction of a mobile biotank leach demonstration plant has been approved by the board of directors of Vancouver-listed Giant Bay Resources. Advanced negotiations are under way with several min…