Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A $250,000 exploration program is slatted by Toronto-listed Fort Knox Gold Resources on the Crow Lake property, southeast of Kenora, under the supervision of Inco Ltd. The program on the 329-claim pro…

Exploration work has started on the East Thurlow Island gold property of Verdstone Gold Corp., the company reports. The work on the property, some 40 miles northeast of Campbell River, B.C., will be c…

The amalgamation of Bankeno Mines with its wholly-owned subsidiary Bankeno Resources has been approved by the board of directors of each company. The two companies are continuing as one amalgamated bu…

A second drill has been added on the optioned New Senator property near Rouyn, Que., by Alotta Resources. So far, approximately 4,500 ft of a planned 20,000-ft drill program has been completed. Assays…

Mill throughput at the Teck-Corona mine at Hemlo reached 924 tonnes per day in Teck Corp.’s first quarter, shareholders were told at the annual meeting. This compares with a 556-ton average for the ye…

Canamax Resources plans to pay more than $3 million for the 20% net profits interest held by Ketza River Mines on Canamax’s Ketza River property in the Yukon. The royalty was acquired by purchasing a …

A seminar on mineral project evaluation techniques and applications will be held Feb 9-20 at McGill University, Montreal, by the university’s department of mining and metallurgical engineering. It is …

This year’s drilling program has started on Eldor Resources’ gold- platinum property in northern Saskatchewan. A check assay results for a recent drill hole announced late last year sees a 5.25-ft int…

The Northern Miner has joined in a direct way, along with the industry itself, in attempting to educate the young people of Canada about mining in this country, and to show coming generations how vita…

The stiff sentences handed two Vancouver stock promoters for their part in the Oct 19 trading debacle more than two years ago should go a long way to curbing such abuses in the future. The promoters -…

Reserves have been calculated by Lenora Explorations for the company’s Worvest property, held in joint venture with American Barrick Resources. Located immediately west of Barrick’s Holt-McDermott min…

A total of $11.5 million is budgeted by Canamax Resources on Canadian exploration this year. Of that amount, $8 million comes from certain agreements reached with Amax of Canada Ltd., Amax Inc. and NI…