Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A $150,000(US) development drilling program has begun at the Valdez Creek placer gold mine in Alaska, and stripping operations are expected to get under way there in early June. The work program opens…

Workers at the Belmoral Mines mill and mine at Val d’Or, Que., have agreed to a new two-year monetary package after shutting down operations for a couple of days with a work stoppage. The 265 workers,…

Thirteen new gold mines that are expected to start up this year in the United States will add more than a half-million ounces of production capacity to that country’s annual gold production, the Metal…

Sunrise Metals Corp. (vse) has optioned its Mayfair gold property in the Atikokan-Fort Frances area of northwestern Ontario to Noranda Exploration Co. Under the terms of the agreement, Noranda can ear…

Week’s High Low Close Change PLATINUM (in US$ per oz.) May 614.00 614.00 614.90 — 2.30 July 627.00 615.00 619.90 — 3.30 Oct. 633.00 622.00 …

J. S. (Jim) Thomson, a mining engineer who was active in British Columbia’s Bralorne gold camp as well as in Newfoundland, the Yukon Territory and the Hemlo, Ont., gold camp, died recently at Tsawwass…

A small gravity concentrator is operating at Rhyolite Resources’ Texada Island gold property northwest of Vancouver. President John Bissett says that throughput has increased gradually and now average…

A $1.1 million exploration program is scheduled this summer on the Mets project of Manson Creek Resources and Golden Rule Resources in the Toodoggone area 160 miles north of Smithers, B.C. Their 1986 …

The field program, on the Bogosu property, by Canadian Bogosu Resources, a Ghanain company jointly owned by Sikaman Gold Resources, and Denison Mines, is well under way, reports A. T. Griffis, Sikaman…

This could be a pivotal year for Vancouver-listed Massive Resources. The company plans to file for a listing on the tse this month and financing, totalling $8.4 million, for the balance of the year sh…

The 27th annual conference of the Canadian Nuclear Association (cna) will take place June 14-17, with the 8th annual conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society (cns) scheduled for June 16-17, both gat…

Diamond drill programs on the Nickel Plate Mountain properties of Golden North Resources Corp., near Hedley, B.C., are returning encouraging gold assays. The programs are under the direction of Mascot…