Articles by Northern Miner Staff

While there is concern, there could be more smoke than fire in Queb ec Mines Minister Raymond Savoie’s statement (in a front page article in last week’s issue of this paper) that the federal governmen…

This is in reply to the guest editorial by Dr E. G. Pye, former director of the Ontario Geological Survey, entitled It’s a bad move to relocate the OGS, Sept 8. Before speculating as to whether the OG…

Nanisivik Mines and Mineral Resources International and Canada Development Corp. (CDC) have reached an agreement, reports Mineral Resources President J. C. Lamacraft. A wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC …

Giant Bay Resources, which had hoped initial mining from its Gordon Lake gold property in the Northwest Territories could have been open pit, says that possibility “now seems highly unlikely.” The com…

What is so far a small but very rich zinc-silver-copper deposit near Matagami in northwestern Quebec is being put into production by Noranda Minerals at a cost of $35 million. Site preparation on the …

A major percentage of auto batteries in North America may soon be produced using advanced manufacturing technology developed by a subsidiary of Cominco Ltd. The unique process was developed by Cominco…

A deal between Hecla Mining Co. and Highwood Resources could lead to construction of a specialty metals mine as early as next year, Highwood President D. G. Thomas says. The deal, which was signed in …

A major exploration program financed by Chevron Minerals has outlined significant gold mineralization on a property in the Yukon held under option from Vancouver-based B.Y.G. Natural Resources. What i…

Wednesday close, Oct 1 Trading this week on the Alberta exchange slid below last week’s level, with 5,096,200 shares traded in the latest period. One of the hottest stocks on the Alberta board was Con…

There’s going to be a lot more ore coming from the Doyon gold mine in northwestern Quebec, the underpinning of two major mining companies, so management has decided to spend $16 million to double mill…

A surface prospecting program carried out by Lacana Mining Corp. and members of the M.E.X. joint venture in New Brunswick, has led to the discovery of a mineralized zone rich in silver. The partners, …

Drilling by Alberta-listed Borealis Exploration on the so-called south zone near Fat Lake in the Keweetin District of the N.W.T. has intersected a 15-ft section grading 0.71 oz gold per ton which incl…