Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Consolidated Parklane Resources Inc. (PK:VSE) has changed its transfer agent to Pacific Corporate Trust Co.

A program of diamond drilling and geophysical surveying is being planned by Galico Resources (VSE) for the Metla property 15 miles northwest of the Golden Bear gold mine in northwestern British Columb…

The upward trend in share prices continued during the week ended April 2 as interest rates dropped to 10.75% and investors placed their bets on an early end to the economic recession. While Januarys 1…

Our association certainly agrees that the environment is important. Our members and their families are also part of the environment. In fact, our members are much more aware of the environment than th…

The American Copper Council (ACC), based in New York City, is offering a foreign trade seminar for executives involved with the copper industry at its June meeting in Quebec City. The 2-day seminar wi…

A writeoff of $4.3 million was declared by Rouyn Mining Resources (TSE), which for 1990 reported a loss of more than $4.9 million (42 cents per share). The company said the writeoff reduces the book v…

A navigatonal and positioning device of considerable accuracy has been developed by Telefix Canada of Richmond Hill, Ont. Known as the Magellan GPS 1000, the unit can determine latitude, longitude and…

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…