Articles by Northern Miner Staff

If mine decommissioning is Issue No. 1 for the mining industry, Rio Algom’s and Denison’s Elliot Lake, Ont. mines will likely become Reclamation Sites No. 1 in terms of public scrutiny. Denison and Ri…

1. A baseline environmental description should be prepared upon which to measure development impact, reclamation effectiveness and over-all success in meeting reclamation objectives. 2. An inventory…

The domino theory of geopolics held that when a key country falls to communism in a certain region, neighboring countries would eventually, but inevitably, succumb. What with the events of recent his…

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…

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…

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…

Only a few years ago, mine closures in Ontario were uncomplicated and inexpensive. Sell the grinding mills and pumps, salvage the mill buildings and haul up the scoops and jumbos and auction them off…

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 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 …

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…

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…

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…