Articles by Northern Miner Staff

In Greenland, a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the red carpet has been rolled out for explorationists. Corporate tax structures have changed for the better, production under the new rules should foll…

Adiamond play in Canada explodes into international prominence. It fires up a segment of the virtually dormant speculative equity market and transforms formerly no-name juniors into front-page names. …

All of Greenland has an arctic climate. The average temperature in the warmest month doesn’t exceed 10degC. But because Greenland covers a large swath north to south, between 60degN and 85deg, the wea…

Platinova A/S and Nunaoil A/S play an unusual role in Greenland exploration. They both behave like any other junior doing its mightiest to find a mine. But Platinova also helps to secure for other exp…

Diamondiferous kimberlites, lamproites and related rocks have been recorded in the West Greenland block of Archaean rock. GGU Open File Series 91/2 documents 500 such occurrences between latitudes 60d…

Gold: The Skaergaard intrusion of East Greenland is probably the best known occurrence. However, GGU geologists have found gold mineralization in the more traditional greenstone belts of the Nuussuaq …

Erik Andersen, P. Eng., Senior Minerals Engineer. Andersen is no stranger to Canadian mining, having spent most of his life in Canada, most recently as mine manager at the Magnacon mine in Ontario. Ad…

Greenland is the world’s largest island. It covers 2,186,00 sq. km. The vast inland ice blankets roughly 80% of the total area. The surface geology can only be studied in the ice-free zone, as much as…

Tom Peters, a U.S. management guru and author of In Search of Excellence, was quoted recently in the daily press as saying, “dull, timid, middle managers will be the most endangered corporate species…

For a person whose burning ambition after high school was to forge a career in forestry, M.R. (Mort) Brown has done well for himself — in mining. At 80, The Northern Miner’s soon-to-retire publisher …

Friends and associates of M.R. (Mort) Brown will honor the retiree at a party Jan. 21, 1993, at the Ontario Club and Engineers’ Club (recently merged), fifth floor, Commerce Court South, downtown Toro…

For a government teetering on bankruptcy, Ottawa keeps right on spending like a drunken sailor. And I’m not referring to that asinine squandering of $4.3 billion for 50 of the world’s most sophisticat…