Metals Report Platinum ready to rebound
Before the wheels fell off the platinum bandwagon earlier this year, the price of the precious-industrial metal reached as high as $670(US) per oz. Its slump to $460 was quick but it was far from pain…
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McGill symposium
The Adams Club, McGill University’s department of geological sciences, will be host of a symposium March 6 in the Royal Bank auditorium, Place Ville Marie, Montreal. It’s titled Ore Deposits in Metamo…
Editorial Mining men at the dance
It looked like a Who’s Who of mining the other night at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre, when ballerina Vanessa Harwood gave her final performance with the National Ballet of Canada. Amongst the appreciative…
COATS Trading Features (February 23, 1987)
Probe Mines was a winner this week, climbing to 58 cents before settling back to 50 cents -55 cents at the close. The company’s main asset is a healthy 5% net smelter royalty in the Goldex Mines’ gol…
Editorial No engineering school lineups
From a letter to The Northern Miner from Gilles Barbery, director, department of mining and metallurgy, Laval University, Quebec. There is a clear need to optimize the performance of mining depart men…
Auto battery market decline to hurt global lead prices
Lead’s recent plunge on the London Metal Exchange signals the end of the price uptrend which spanned the last several months. And one of the major factors in the drop price will be a 3% decline in the…
Here it grows again: Battle Mt profit up 75%
As every reporting period comes and goes, the balance sheet of U.S.-based Battle Mountain Gold grows stronger and stronger. And this latest round of reporting does not disappoint. For the year ended D…
Norstar grades and recoveries 10% higher than study indicated
The 200-ton gold mill in Scadding Twp north of Sudbury will likely produce significantly more gold from the Norstar mine than was originally projected, The Northern Miner has gathered. According to pr…
Total Erickson to acquire Ranchmen shares
Toronto and Vancouver-listed Total Erickson Resources has entered into an agreement with John G. McDonald to acquire his controlling interest in Canadian Oil and Gas Funds (COGF), which holds the majo…
Vista drilling new zone on Bootleg property
A 12,000-ft diamond drilling program is meeting with encouragement at the Bootleg Lake property held by Vista Mines. Located 5 km south of Flin Flon, on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, the Bootleg p…
Letters to the Editor We missed Laurentian
I would like to draw your attention to an error in the article McGill, Polytech plan co-op course in mining engineering, in the Jan 26 issue of The Northern Miner. The concluding paragraph in that art…
People (February 23, 1987)
ST. JOE GOLD CORP. – John A. Wright elected chairman succeeding Peter J. Neff who has resigned.