FIVE OREBODIES AND COUNTING
The Anvil lead/zinc/silver district is 200 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. Five known stratiform sedimentary exhalative deposits occur in a well-defined trend within a narrow Cambrian stratigraphic…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
RE-GREENING THE ANVIL RANGE
Curragh Resources’ environmental people have shepherded approvals through the regulatory process several times now — for the Vangorda and Grum deposits two years ago, for Westray in Nova Scotia and f…
WESTRAY’S LOW-SULHUR COAL
Curragh Resources’ Westray coal mine was officially opened Sept. 11, 1991. With hard-to-beat logistics and equipped as a brand new operation, Westray should be Nova Scotia’s most productive coal mine….
NATIVE DEVELOPMENT
When Sa Dena Hes was launched with official fanfare last fall, a special ceremony, rare and probably unique in the annals of Canadian mining, caught the spotlight. The Kaska Dena nation bestowed on Cu…
OPEN PIT UNDERGROUND
In attempting to extract every last tonne of economic ore out of the ground, Curragh has driven into the wall of the Faro open pit. This underground mine has been going since 1990. The portal is situa…
CURRAGH TAPS ITS STABLE OF DEPOSITS
Curragh Resources and its Faro, Yukon, complex are in the midst of switching workhorses. Up until the past few years, the Faro deposit — in terms of draft horses, truly a Clydesdale — had fed the 4-…
BIG FARO MILL FINE-TUNED FOR GRUM ORE
The Faro concentrator was initially a 5,000-tonne-per-day operation in the early 1970s. It has since been expanded several times so that today it can process 14,000 tonnes daily, which, says Ken Ball,…
FROM SUPPLY PACKER TO PRESIDENT
Colin Benner has been immersed in mining all his life. In fact, he was recruited by his prospector father at such an early age that skin tissue assays might yield fairly strong mineralization. Well –…
50 YEARS AGO (May 01, 1992)
VIOLA MACMILLAN HITS A HOMER A proposal by Mrs. George A. MacMillan, secretary of the Ontario Prospectors’ and Developers’ Association, to offer tax exemptions to corporations and individuals contribu…
Trout Lake, Crofoot improve for Granges
Record production was achieved by Granges (TSE) at its two producing mines during 1992. The company holds a 29% interest in the Trout Lake polymetallic mine near Flin Flon, Man., and operates the Crof…
Cazador increases Slocan holdings
The historic Hewitt-Van Roi property in the Slocan Mining division in southern British Columbia was recently purchased by Cazador Explorations (VSE), significantly increasing the company’s holdings in…
Wage increases slow in minerals sector
Wage increases in the Canadian mining, smelting and refining industry were slightly lower in the first eight months of 1991 than they were in all of 1990, according to the Ministry of Energy, Mines an…