Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Several issues were stronger this week, reflecting improvements in precious metal prices. On the platinum front, Boston Bay Mines, which controls the Lac des Iles platinum/palladium deposit north of T…

A diamond drill program is scheduled to begin this month on its Anderson Lake and Pilot properties in the Bralorne area of B.C., reports X-Cal Resources President Shawn Kennedy. Drill sites are being …

Wednesday close, Oct 1 Word that Quebec prospector Peter Ferderber backed by a syndicate of 12 investors had made a significant platinum discovery north of Schefferville, Que., added to Mazarin’s fort…

Dome Mines, (with 24%), emerges the dominant shareholder of Falconbridge Ltd. as the result of the sale by the Canada Development Corporation of the CDC’s 10.5 million common share holding in Falconb…

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…