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It has been likened to buying a billion dollar lottery ticket — the odds are sky high but the rewards could be just as rich. Even though the history of diamond exploration in this country doesn’t sup…

There has been a lot of discussion in the past concerning who made the first gold discoveries in the Little Long Lac area. The Northern Miner has been fortunate enough to run across evidence, hitherto…

A 7,000-ft drill program has been completed on Eastfield Resources, (VSE) Indata project north of Fort St. James, B.C. Quartz sulphides were encountered in 20 out of 23 holes one of which (No 88-1-11)…

St Andrew Goldfields’ Stock Township gold property has everything a fledgling mining company could want. Gold mineralization that looks mineable. A shaft to access the deposit. A mill that with each p…

With its shares trading at 8 cents recently on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Golden Range Resources (TSE) says it has been unable to raise sufficient funds to finance a 5,000-ft decline at the Hudvam pr…

Helping to enliven a directionless trading week on the exchange was news that MSV Resources of Montreal will be taking on the Eastmain gold project in northern Quebec by itself, subject to various app…

Continuing exploration drilling by Placer Dome US is going on in an area of several square miles located 6 to 8 miles north of Nome, Alaska in ongoing evaluation of lode gold deposits discovered by As…

Vancouver market watchers were buoyed by news that bargain hunters were out in full force in Toronto, generating a rebound among otherwise sound issues that had been battered by gold’s drop below $400…

Measuring stresses in hard rock has always been a big problem for rock mechanics engineers. Dr Gerhard Herget should know. The research scientist at the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology…

Shaft sinking at the Astoria property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., has reached a depth of about 900 ft, between the sixth and seventh levels, Karl Glackmeyer, president of Yorbeau Resources (TSE), told T…

The new Komatsu Dresser Co. of Libertyville, Ill., has elected a 6-member management committee. They are: John Murphy, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Dresser Inc.; Masao Tanaka, pr…

Although modern exploration interest in the Mishibishu area came about as a sort of `overflow’ from the Hemlo gold rush in the early 1980s, it was only until recent discoveries that major companies ha…