United acquires Mother Lode land
A large land position is being acquired by United Gold Corp. in the Mother Lode area of California. The first property, the Alameda, is located in Tuolumne Cty., adjoining the large Jamestown open pit…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
News in Brief (November 03, 1986)
A takeover attempt for control of MacDonald Mines was narrowly thwarted by the current management at a recent shareholders’ meeting. The present board of directors received 1.75 million shares versus …
16 holes cut gold values on Cline’s Wawa-area property
Anomalous gold values were encountered with values ranging from 0.023 to 1.454 oz gold per ton in all of 16 holes drilled by Noranda Exploration on Cline Development’s Cline Lake property about 15 mil…
Vestgron shares not tendered to either two takeover bids
Trading in shares of Vestgron Mines resumed on Friday Oct 24 on the Toronto Stock Exchange after a week-long halt for disclosure that the major shareholder Cominco Ltd. has not tendered its Vestgron s…
Murphy Oil Co. has changed its transfer agent to Canada Trust Co.
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Gordex drilling at Cape Spencer
Drilling has started on Gordex Minerals’ Cape Spencer gold property i n New Brunswick in an effort to expand known reserves of the currently producing open pit deposit and to test other zones on the p…
News in Brief (October 27, 1986)
Viscount Resources has acquired a 100% interest in a large block of mineral claims consisting of 13,500 acres in the Russell Lake area of the Northwest Territories.
Editorial: Metals win one small war
While the substitution battle goes on between metals and other mater ials (notably plastics), some skirmishes are being won by the metals industry. Just the other day, for example, General Motors in…
Teck takeover of Cominco may be record mining coup
Moving decisively to take management control of a company many times its size, Teck Corp. has reshuffled the board at Cominco and replaced several board members with Teck nominees. This first salvo in…
Newfoundland gold discovery made by Westfield/Coniagas
A gold discovery in Newfoundland, with large tonnage possibilities, has been made by Westfield Minerals and partners The Coniagas Mines (25%) and Anglo Dominion Gold Exploration (25%). Westfield, the …
Going,going, gone WAMIC auction
Circle the night of Nov 7 as a not-to-miss event on your calender. It’s Golden Gala Night for the Women’s Association of the Mining Industry of Canada and the association’s fund-raising event for the …
Omnex International announces that shareholders of its predecessor
Carbrew Explorations approved its amalgamation with ECX Security productions. The amalgamated company will continue under the Omnex name and will be involved in security systems for the home and small…