Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Raise reamers designed and manufactured by Machines Roger International of Val d’Or, Que. have entered the market. The first machine was the V-30, capable of reaming an 8-inch pilot hole to 30 inches …

I am disgusted at the attitude displayed in your editorial entitled “Our Man at Thompson” [see December 1990 issue]. The licence that you took describing the city of Thompson in the way that you did i…

In the previous Law article, The Environmental Audit (see our January, 1991 issue), we left the corporation and its directors with a completed environmental audit that pointed out both actual and pote…

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874-1937) first successfully transmitted over the English Channel in 1899 and across the Atlantic in 1901. Only pulse transmisssions were possible at the time and it was r…

I am told that in the Kirkland Lake gold mines of the 1940s, there was resistance to the newfangled jackleg or pusherleg drill that Atlas Copco had just invented. Resistance appeared on two fronts. Wo…

CANADIAN MALARTIC DOUBLES ORE Another substantial increase in ore reserves, leading to consideration of plans for expansion of milling facilities, has been the principal feature of results at Canadian…

Not new to the overseas aggregates industry, but a relative newcomer to Canada, is the Barmac crusher, distributed by Wajax Industries of Markham, Ont. Developed and manufactured in New Zealand, this …

Gold funds as of Mar. 26 BGR Central Net Value $9.07 $5.11 Price $8.00 $4.650 Discount 11.80% 9.0% Value $54,030,833 $78,232,995…

Big Creek Resources Ltd. 750,000 shs offered @ 81 cents.

Assay results should be available this month from another batch of drill holes on the Holloway gold project of 60/40 partners Noranda (TSE) and Freewest Resources (TSE) in northeastern Ontario. Drill …

Murray Pezim is looking elsewhere for senior financing for his junior companies after lengthy negotiations with an international major mining company terminated without an agreement. The major, believ…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US69.50-70.50 cents per lb. (Mar.14, 1991) ANTIMONY: New York dealer US84-85 cents per lb. (Mar. 14, 1991). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Jan. 31, 1991). CADM…