Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Junior Sudbury Contact (TSE) has completed a flow-through private placement worth $1 million. The company will issue 166,666 shares to associated company Agnico-Eagle Mines (TSE). Sudbury Contact will…

Now that shareholders have approved the proposed merger of Bachelor Lake Gold Mines (ME) and Espalau Mining (ME), the former will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Espalau and will be known as Espal…

Four new technical notes have been released by mineral processing laboratory Lakefield Research: Tailings testing (Vol. 5, No. 4), Advances in zinc flotation (Vol. 5, No. 5), Solvent extraction testin…

A Guide to Historic Cobalt, by Peter Fancy. Published by the Temiskaming Abitibi Heritage Association. For mail orders, contact the Highway Book Shop, Highway 11S, Cobalt, Ont. P0J 1C0. 40 pages. $3.7…

Negotiations allowing Hillsborough Resources (TSE) to arrange financing for a planned $14.1 million expansion at the company’s Quinsam coal mine on Vancouver Island, B.C. are well under way. The expan…

Your timely editorial “Left out in the cold” (T.N.M., March 28/94) discusses the impact of the recent U.S.-Russian agreement on uranium imports. It mentions Cameco as Canada’s largest uranium producer…

I toiled hard and endlessly in the junior ranks of mines and often wondered when I would qualify for a posting to the upper echelon. Then one day I was summoned to the Big Office. The boss looked over…

I read with interest your article on Cameco getting the green light for production of its Eagle Point and Collins A and D zones (“Rabbit Lake gets federal OK,” T.N.M., April 4/94). Sometimes our indus…

The 18th International Precious Metals Conference will take place June 12-15 in Vancouver, B.C. The theme of the conference, hosted by the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI), will be “prec…

Francis Petro appointed president.

Frederick Wynne elected director.

Roberto Munoz appointed director of exploration for South America.