Articles by Northern Miner Staff

P.T. International Nickel Indonesia, the 58% owned subsidiary of Toronto-based Inco (TSE), recently reported a 48% decline in its first-quarter earnings compared with last year’s levels. P.T. Inco., w…

Adonos Resources (VSE), an affiliate of Balck Cliff Mines (TSE), reported arranging a private placement involving a minimum of 800,000 units and a maximum of one million units at $1.25 per unit.

Black Hawk Mining (TSE) says it will begin drilling on a 24-claim nickel property in McElroy Twp. near Kirkland Lake, Ont., after signing an option agreement for the claims. By spending $475,000 on e…

Completion of a national inventory and data base which identify and rate the mineral potential for economic development on 2,267 reserves across Canada has been announced by Indian Affairs and Norther…

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and A.J. Casson’s painting entitled “The Entrance to Baie Fine” has come to speak volumes about Falconbridge’s commitment to environmental pr…

The Ontario Mine Contractors Safety Association recently appointed the following to its 1991-1992 executive: (Back row, left to right) Dan Sweeney (MacIsaac Mining & Tunnelling), Ron Dion (J.S. Redpat…

Not long ago Frank Pickard, the new president of Falconbridge, calculated the odds were slim that he could land the presidency at the base metal mining company. The owners, Noranda Inc. and Trelleborg…

Falconbridge’s first mill on the North Rim was the Hardy (1955), followed by the Fecunis (1957) and finally the Strathcona mill, commissioned in 1968. The earlier mills closed in 1972 and 1975 respect…

Thayer Lindsley, a lanky New Englander whose second home became Canada, founded Falconbridge Nickel Mines (and ushered into existence a host of others, most prominent among them Sherritt Gordon Mines …

Falconbridge is spending $46 million this year on exploration. It will feed another $23 million (of capitalized funds) to the New Quebec Raglan project on the Ungava Peninsula. Most of the other money…

Falconbridge’s Kidd Creek copper-zinc-silver massive sulphide deposit is at the west end of the Archean-age Abitibi greenstone belt, 27 km north of Timmins, Ont. The orebody was discovered by diamond …

Falconbridge’s fifteenth mine in the Sudbury Basin and tenth on the North Rim, the Craig, was drilled during the 1970s, disclosing several zones of good grade nickel-copper ore. Shaft-sinking was star…