Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Definition drilling of the 67 zone at the Rand Malartic, Quebec gold property of NSR Resources is under way with encouraging results being returned. So far, 23 underground holes have been completed at…

St. George Minerals has reached an agreement to acquire the Dean mine property located two miles southeast of its Fisher gold project in Nevada’s Battle Mountain area. President Frank Varseveld claims…

RTZ Minerals, a wholly owned subsidiary of the traditionally conservative Rio Tino Zinc PLC of London, has signed an option agreement with CNM of Brazil to earn a 40% interest in a platinum/ paladium …

Beaufield Resources, has entered into an agreement with Kidd Creek Mines, an affiliate of Falconbridge Inc., giving the company the right to earn a 49% interest in Kidd Creek’s Lac Barry area properti…

What probably represents the largest single exploration and development program in B.C. is well under way 77 miles north of Telegraph Creek. North American Metals Corp. is spending $3.3 million on Che…

C. Bruce Ross, who retired late last year as president of Labrador Mining and Exploration, has been appointed by the Ontario government to undertake a review of the future education and training needs…

A former Nova Scotia deputy minister of mines, James P. Nowlan, has di ed in Halifax at the age of 76. A professional geologist who enjoyed a long career in the mining industry before entering governm…

37 cents per share for the third quarter of 1986 resulting in consolidated net income of $2,259,000 or 52 cents per share for the 9-month period ended Sept 30. Net earnings for the same periods in 1…

The Spaniards were the first to mine gold commercially in the South American country of Colombia which is probably best known as a coffee exporter. But today, modern placer mining techniques are recov…

Mother Nature did a magnificent job concentrating the gold mineralization at Canamax Resources’ Ketza River project. And despite periods of heavy glaciation, she didn’t disturb the underlying oxide zo…

A 26,000-ft diamond drilling program is being considered by partners Bresea Resources and Ayrex Resources on their equally held 324-claim property in Desmazures Twp., Que. Located north of Joutel, the…

Wednesday close, Oct 29 A sluggish market this week saw the widely followed composite 300 mean der a few points here and a few points there. Today it was off 0.77 pts for a close of 3,011.82. While t…