Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A symposium featuring earth scientists from the Soviet nickel camp at Norilsk in Siberia and their counterparts at Sudbury, Ont., is being organized for Oct. 2-6, 1992, at the Ontario Geological Surve…

A third-quarter loss of US$1.2 million trimmed 9-month earnings for Crown Resources (VSE) this year. The company reported earnings of US$145,000 for the nine months ended Sept. 30, compared with US$2….

Fort Knox Gold Resources (TSE) has moved two larger rigs on to its base metal play in the Shining Tree area of northeastern Ontario after the first rig, testing the company’s nickel-copper discovery, …

Chicago-based FMC Gold (NYSE) produced 95,000 oz. gold in the 1991 third quarter ended Sept. 30, a slight increase from the 89,000 oz. produced in the comparable period last year. But the company’s ne…

Samples from Flag Resources’ (ASE) Wanapitei property in Mackelcan Twp., Ont., have returned anomalous values of nickel, cobalt and gold. The samples, taken from altered sandstone north of Jones Lake,…

Quebec is committed to promoting the safe use of asbestos, the province’s deputy prime minister and minister of energy and resources recently told an international conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia…

When your writer was at Cord Ranch recently, he should have stopped by Alligator Ridge. He would have found that Kennecott Corp. and Nerco Inc. no longer own Alligator Ridge; rather, USMX Inc., a soli…

Trading activity was relatively flat during the week ended Nov. 26, with the resource index posting a 1.3-point loss to 508.17 and the composite index gaining 5.2 points to close at 561.55. The recent…

LAC Minerals was criticized at the turn of the 1980s for “speculating” on the gold price by hedging gold production. For the mining industry back then, this was a true innovation — and heresy. Hedgin…

GOLD FIELDS DRILLING AGAIN Due to difficulties with overburden there have been no further results from drilling in the new west ore area at Malartic Gold Fields. Hole No. 154, located 100 ft. west of …

Heap leach ore at El Indio is a byproduct of mining in the Tambo open pits. Low-grade ore running on average 1.2 g per tonne — waste rock were it not for heap leaching — is piled in 6-m lifts up to …

Labor costs run between US$500 to $1,000 per month for unionized workers at El Indio. Workers also benefit from an incentive program, similar to mining bonuses at Canadian operations, and a profit-sha…