Articles by Northern Miner Staff











FNX, Maple to drill Mt. Kakoulima

After spending much of the year in preparation, Sudbury’s third-largest nickel miner, FNX Mining (FNX-T), will soon launch a 5,000-metre drilling campaign at its Mt. Kakoulima nickel-sulphide project in Guinea, West Africa.


Rock liner bursts on the scene

Falconbridge, 3M Canada and Sandvik Tamrock are developing a spray-on polymer liner to replace the awkward mesh wiring bolted into mine walls to prevent rock bursts.


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