Articles by Northern Miner Staff

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 64.50 cents -66.00 cents per lb. (Apr 2, 1987). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.08-$1.15 per lb. (Apr 2, 1987). BISMUTH: New York dealer $2.50-$2.70 per lb. (Feb 26, 1987). CADMI…

Drilling on about 100-ft centres has outlined eight million tons of potentially economic heap leach reserves at Amir Mines’ Buffalo Gulch and Friday properties, in Idaho. The reserves grade from 0.03 …

Resource companies continue to be among the active leaders on the Montreal Exchange, where two of the mining stocks traded more than a million shares each during the past week. One of the firms, Essor…

Four miners, employees of Inco Ltd., have been killed underground at the company’s Levack nickel mine near Sudbury, Ont. Termed a “freak accident” by officals of the United Steel Workers of America, t…

Most gold issues on the major exchanges entered a modest correction phase today, as gold bullion gave up $8 to $442(US). However, the correction for some companies amounted to nothing more than sidewa…

Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) April — — 62.55 + 0.35 May 62.85 62.55 62.60 + 0.30 July 62.80 62.50…

This is one heck of a bull market. Rising gold and silver prices have propelled many stocks into orbit but the gravitational pull of higher interest rates has started to drag stocks down. Profit takin…

Theme of the 38th annual technical meeting of the Petroleum Society of sim (Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy), planned for June 7-10 at Calgary, Alta., is “Innovation and Optimization — Ev…

Some encouraging drill results have been reported from Balcor Resources’ Lasthope property, 15 miles southeast of Lynn Lake, Man. The latest results included 8.5 ft of 0.307 oz gold per ton and 9.3 ft…

There could be both good news and bad news in a new federal initiative to strengthen the links between this country and the People’s Republic of China, in the mining sector. Minister of State for Mi…

Two Toronto-based mining companies, Muscocho Explorations and Flanagan McAdam Resources, have entered into an agreement with Greenstone Resources whereby they may jointly acquire up to a 50% interest …

A section of zinc rich mineralization has been encountered at Colony Pacific Explorations’ Blue Moon property in California. Westmin Resources has already spent $2.7 million(US) on the property and mo…