Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A minimum 7,000-ft diamond drill program is under way by Westfield Minerals and Northern Dynasty Explorations on two properties in the Pickle Lake district of northern Ontario. At least four separate …

In the past six months Standard Gold Mines has erected a headframe and hoist along with ancillary services required to facilitate exploration to the 2,500-ft level on its Duverny gold prospect near Am…

Whenever the stock value of International Corona Resources or Lac Minerals fluctuates these days, rumors start to fly that a court ruling is imminent on the two companies’ legal dispute. A decision by…

Query: What is the latest information on Bathurst Norsemines? P. S., Toronto, Ont. Bathurst Norsemines changed its name to Etruscan Enterprises on Aug. 22, 1986. The company’s new name, explains Presi…

Vancouver-listed Magellan Resources Corp. says it intersected 35 ft of 0.4-oz-gold-per-ton material in a hole put down below some old mine workings on a property in western Montana. The 36-claim South…

McChip Resources has obtained an option from Noranda Exploration giving McChip the right to earn up to 50% of Noranda’s interest in a property in northeastern Ontario’s Garrison Twp., north of Kirklan…

That oppressive U.S. trade deficit just won’t go away. On a downtrend since August, it seemed like the deficit was slowly coming under control. Then November’s deficit was announced — $19.2 billion, …

Within five months Belmoral Mines hopes to find a buyer willing to spend about $24.9 million for two blocks of shares that, combined, represent up to 27.4% of the company’s equity. In a twist on the W…

The following letter has been sent to Finance Minister Michael Wilson at Ottawa. I would like to take this opportunity to convey to you some of the very strong feelings that many of our member municip…

United Keno Hill Mines reports it has an agreement with NIM and Co., Limited, Partnership — 1987, for the provision to United Keno of flow-through exploration funding. United Keno says it will issue …

“A feeding frenzy” is about the only way to describe it, William F. White, senior vice-president of corporate finance at Merrill Lynch Canada says of the public’s rush for the new issue of flow-throug…

A 20 ft section of gold quartz mineralization has been pulled by D’Or Val Mines in the Discovery vein at its Beacon mine just east of Val d’Or, Que. The vein material in this diamond drill hole, No. 1…