Articles by Northern Miner Staff

It looks as if the Detour Lake mine is gearing up its new underground gold mine with production slated at 1,800 tonnes of ore per day by December, 1987. “Though the final approval has not been given, …

Wednesday close, Dec 3 The ownership of the Page- Williams Hemlo mine is now resting in the hands of the five judges who have spent the latter part of last month in the Ontario Court of Appeal listeni…

“I don’t think I’ve seen a junior mining company come to market with such a package of properties.” That is how Dan Farrel, who has been with Merit Investment Corp. of Toronto for seven years, introdu…

A favorable production decision is expected on the Ketza River prope rty, says C.D. Stewart, President of Pacific Trans Ocean Resources, which holds a 50% interest in this Yukon gold project. As part …

The French Ministry of Industry is planning an open file presentatio n on the results of the French Mining Inventory on gold. Scheduled for Dec 16, the presentation will take place at the Paris School…

A large 48,000-ft diamond drilling program has started on the Larder Lake, Ont., property controlled by Kerr Addison Mines and Eldor Resources. Funded by Northfield Minerals and Northern Ranger Oil an…

The first successful heap leach test ever in northern Ontario has be en completed by Pamour Porcupine Inc., and the company is gearing up for commercial production next year. The success of the test h…

Silver production from Nevada helped finance the civil war and the metal’s name appears on state licence plates. But far from being the Silver State, Nevada is becoming known as a gold producer — lot…

In the Nov 17 issue of The Northern Miner, in a story concerning the Cobalt silver property of Silverside Resources, it was incorrectly stated that mining, milling, trucking and refining would cost an…

Mining needs all the help it can get these days, so on general princ iple it can hardly fault the Association of Mining Municipalities of Ontario for a submission it made recently at a conference on n…

After six years of legal proceedings, Belmoral Mines may finally cle ar its name of criminal charges in connection with the death of eight miners at its Val d’Or, Que., gold mine — or it could just b…

With approximately $60 million in its treasury, Dickenson Mines has a 2-fold purpose: it is looking to acquire additional North American producing gold operations in addition to maximizing production …