Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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.

Dale Hendrick appointed chairman.

The opening of a major open-pit gold mine in this historic mining village is expected to pay big dividends in the local economy. It is the first mine to open in the district since 1916 and, to celebra…

Strong industrial production in most member nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development continues to bolster base metal markets, while uneasiness over social issues in Russia…