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Encouraging results for Skeena Resources

Skeena Resources says encouraging results have been received from drilling by operator Noranda Inc. on the Schroeder Mountain area of the Maggie Creek Ranch property at Carlin, Nev. Skeena is in a joi…


Bitech signs deal with Greenstone

Alberta-listed Bitech Energy Resources and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vancouver-listed Greenstone Resources have signed a formal joint venture agreement regarding the Tache property near Chibougamau…


Mineral Technology Council formed

A newly created, privately funded agency — the Mineral Technology Council of Canada — will act as an “information broker” for the mining industry in an attempt to match up the most promising researc…


Strike notice

The United Steel Workers of America has served 72 hr strike notice on Cominco Ltd. Shutdown of the company’s massive smelting and refining complex at Trail, B.C. was scheduled to begin Wednesday May 6…


Writing award

A writer for The Northern Miner is the winner of one of a number of journalism awards presented at the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy annual general meeting. Staff writer Laima Dingwall w…


Editorial They do us proud

It was an impressive, even moving, sight at the awards dinner of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to see the nearly three dozen men invited up to the head table to be honored for their …


Editorial Tax reform will not be delayed

It seems the suspense over Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson’s tax reform proposals and whether or not he will make changes in flow-through share financing will not be too prolonged after all. …




Reg planning drill program

Reg. Resources Corp. says it plans a drill program this year on its Silverknife claims. These claims are located in the Liard Mining Division in northern British Columbia, contiguous to the Regional R…


Kasner companies get flow through

Junior companies within the Kasner Group, have raised a total of $2.5 million via a private placement of flow-through shares to MVP Exploration (1987) and Co. Sholia Resources will receive $500,000 as…


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