Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Teck Corp. has moved quickly to eliminate the short-term bank borro wings it required for the takeover of Cominco. The company will place 1.75 million units in Europe which should net about $60 millio…

Gold-silver mineralization has been encountered on the Tommy Jack property in northwest B.C. by joint venture partners Goldcap Inc. and Noranda Explorations. This mineralization was encountered in a s…

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change received shareholder approval recently. The company’s trading symbol on the Alberta Stock Exchange will remain the same, AOE.

There appears to be little doubt that Westmin Resources w ill have a viable mining operation at Stewart, B.C., when it completes this year’s work program at its British Silbak and Big Missouri gold pr…

A production feasibility study has been received by Cal Graphite Corp. for its open pit, crystalline, flake graphite deposit near Huntsv ille, Ont. A company spokesman, Richard Addison, says Cal Graph…

In the labyrinthine basement of Osgoode Hall, the seat of Ontario’s Court of Appeal, one entire room is set aside for documents relating to the case of Lac Minerals and International Corona Resources….

Investors have apparently caught the Lac des Iles bug judging by the recent market action on Madeleine Mines. This company plans to bring into production the optioned Lac des Iles platinum-palladium p…

Nexus Resource Corp. has been granted an option by Westmin Resourc es to earn a 50% interest in its Debbie property located six miles east of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. The property, which cons…

Almaden Resources has raised $420,000 in a best efforts offering to explore three precious metals properties. The financing increases the company’s working capital to approximately $500,000, the bulk …

The mining and integrated metals business segment of Cominco Ltd. h as benefited dramatically from higher metal prices, productivity improvement and a general cost-cutting program. But the company’s f…

In spite of recession, the effects of new technology and competition from alternative materials, demand for strontium is continuing its strong growth displayed during the early 1980s. Following the ra…