Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Fourth quarter offsets losses for Equity Silver

With revenues totalling some $63.7 million, Equity Silver Mines managed to post a modest profit of $22,000 last year, compared to $230,000 in 1985. Fourth-quarter earnings of $605,000 offset losses in…


Market action in January enough to curl your hair

One only has to look at the numbers to see that this past January was a hair-curling month on the Toronto Stock Exchange. With 603.1 million shares trading hands that month, a new all- time record was…


Metals Report Platinum ready to rebound

Before the wheels fell off the platinum bandwagon earlier this year, the price of the precious-industrial metal reached as high as $670(US) per oz. Its slump to $460 was quick but it was far from pain…


McGill symposium

The Adams Club, McGill University’s department of geological sciences, will be host of a symposium March 6 in the Royal Bank auditorium, Place Ville Marie, Montreal. It’s titled Ore Deposits in Metamo…


Editorial Mining men at the dance

It looked like a Who’s Who of mining the other night at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre, when ballerina Vanessa Harwood gave her final performance with the National Ballet of Canada. Amongst the appreciative…


Lac Shortt royalty deal upsets Opawica meeting

The sharp differences between Opawica Explorations Inc., vendor of the Lac Shortt gold mine property of Corp. Falconbridge Copper, and that company surfaced during a lengthy annual meeting of Opawica …


Pathfinder withdraws from Pine Tree bet

Goldenbell Resources says that Pathfinder Gold of San Francisco has elected not to participate in further development of the Pine Tree gold project. The option agreement expired on Jan 30 and both com…


Augmitto plans a private placement

Augmitto Explorations has settled a form of agreement with Laurence Prust and Co. for a private placement to be effected with up to 12 institutional investors in England. The agreement calls for the i…


Chesbar, Murgold cut high grade

The first two rounds from drifting completed by partners Chesbar Resources and Murgold Resources have returned high grade gold assays. The work is being carried out on the Chester Twp., Ont., property…


Teck Corp. ups profit by 20%

Including for the first time its 50% share from the David Bell mine in Ontario’s famed Hemlo camp, Teck Corp. moved its profit ahead a healthy 20% to $6.5 million or 12 cents per share for the first …


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