Articles by Northern Miner Staff

I worked as a mine geologist at M.J. Boylen’s Key Anacon mine in New Brunswick for a year in the mid-1960s. In late 1965, I took a leave of absence for one month. When I reported back to work, Boylen …

Assay results are expected shortly from a drill program by Eurus Resource (VSE) on the Albino concession in the Kilometre 88 area of eastern Venezuela. The property is a joint venture with Crystallex …

The economic boom in the People’s Republic of China is being fuelled in part by burgeoning foreign investment in almost every industry sector. Asia Minerals, a private company formed by a group of Van…

A sampling program to establish size and grade of a garnet resource is being planned by Bitterroot Resources (VSE) for its newly leased Williams property in Mohave Cty., Ariz. The road accessible clai…

The first two holes from the initial phase of drilling at the Taysan copper project in the Philippines returned higher copper and gold grades than averages quoted in previous reserve estimates. Chase …

MEND, OMEP, CORE, MDA, OMA, MABC, MNDM, GAC, MAC, FLIP, SLIP, BLIP, HIP. Enough! Enough! No more acronyms. Or if there must be acronyms, outlaw tongue-twisters like MNDM or MABC. MEND slips easily off…

About 300 employees will be affected by the temporary closure, planned for April, of the Troy silver-copper mine near Libby, Mont. Mine operator Asarco (NYSE) attributed the shutdown decision to persi…

Record revenues and earnings were reported by Centurion Mines (NASDAQ) for its 1992 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. The Utah-based junior noted that revenues increased 375% to US$834,851 over revenues of …

Gold production in Nevada totalled 6.5 million oz. in 1992, up from 5.8 million oz. the previous year, the state’s department of minerals reports. Giving the state a major boost was the Goldstrike min…

In 1991, Canadian exploration expenditures totalled $532 million, down from $775 million in 1990. Senior companies spent $416 million and junior companies $116 million. Some 732 operators reported exp…

The Winston Lake mine relies on a modified Avoca method for extraction. But that wasn’t the technique considered in the early planning stages. Back then, flatback mechanized cut-and-fill (MCF) was tho…

Use of iron ore in Canadian blast furnaces remained low for the third year in a row. Relative to 1991, however, consumption of domestic ores increased by 11%, to 7.6 million tonnes. Iron ore imports, …