Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Exploration Drills Fall Silent

After the lavish banquet of the flow-through years (a memory now, nothing more), Canada’s diamond drillers are eking out an existence on crumbs and scraps. It doesn’t make for a healthy industry. “It…


Engineered Wetlands

The removal of dissolved metals in wetlands (land in which the soil is saturated) may be mediated through a variety of processes, including direct uptake by plants, ion exchange or adsorption on clays…


The Green Solution

Before acid mine drainage emerged as the gravest effect of tailings deposits, pockets of the north were afflicted by tailings dust storms. Come a dry spell, a good blow sent up clouds of choking grit…



B.C. Smelter? Yes!

You’re in select company if you work at a British Columbia mine or mill. And you can count on becoming more select as time wears on. The province has 22 operating mines. Ten are threatened by deple…


The Brenda Legacy

The Brenda mine in B.C. was poor in terms of grade – 0.17% Cu and 0.04% Mo. But such poverty spurred Brenda’s technical people to introduce a wealth of technological innovations. Process technology …


50 Years Ago (July 01, 1992)

CCF PLEDGES TO TAX WEALTHY The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) has considerable prominence as well as third place in the House of Commons. The bit cry of this party, during the war particu…


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (June 29, 1992)

Our magazine applauds your addressing the topic of gold dumping. (T.N.M., May 11/92). The dumping of government gold stock by the Canadian central bank, however, is not being executed to reduce federa…


Spot prices at a glance (June 29, 1992)

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $344.00 + $1.90 Silver* $ 4.04 – $0.07 Platinum* $366.60 – $2.65 Nickel** $ 3.23 – $0.01 Lead** $ 0.25 $0.00 Copper $ 1.06 + $0.02 Zinc $ 0.59 $0.00 Courtesy of Scotiaba…




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