Articles by Northern Miner Staff

For Curragh Resources, the Westray coal mine in Nova Scotia was to have been a cash-flow buffer when its Faro, Y.T., operations inevitably suffered through price troughs in zinc and lead. Westray, ins…

It is cash flow that ultimately pays for construction, equipment and the acquisition of new machinery that, in turn, enable companies to expand production and grow. In manufacturing, there is an 18-mo…

There is a blight on the famed gold belt of northern Quebec and northern Ontario. There are too many miners and too few jobs. This is not news to anyone who knows the region; it has been a fact of lif…

Canada will be well represented at next month’s Geotechnica trade show for geosciences and technology in Cologne, Germany. The country will, in fact, be the second-largest foreign exhibitor, with more…

The annual Report of Activities (1992 edition) is available at mining recorders’ offices across Ontario. Featuring 107 pages of maps, charts and articles, the Report contains a record of mining, devel…

A gas supplier to Canadian mines, Praxair Canada of Mississauga, Ont., has won two major safety awards from the Compressed Gas Association of Arlington, Va. The Leonard Parker Pool Safety Award honors…

A safety record has been set by Hecla Mining. The company’s Republic gold mine in northeast Washington state experienced no lost-time accidents in all of 1992. In fact, the last accident resulting in …

Bruce Thorndycraft and Kim Farran appointed directors. N5…

James Sturgess appointed vice-president, environmental affairs. N5…

Randall Scott appointed vice-president and general manager. N5…

Richard Garnett appointed director. N5…

J. Laughlin, Jean Claude Bonhomme, Douglas Ford, Granger Cumberford and William Gilmore elected directors. N5…