Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Take the computer chips from a truckload of seat belt alarms, run them through a shredder, and then roast them to 1,300deg C. What do you get? Aside from the worthless stuff, 80 oz. of pure platinum. …

There is a mystique about the mining industry in the minds of laymen, due in large part to the specialized terminology of the industry. So it is with law. Certain lawyers preen themselves with the use…

Jan 7-11, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Hydrothermal Alterations. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 8-12, Ren…

Generally, little is heard of that other Inco — the nickel operations 400 air miles north of civilization and known as Thompson, Man. When it was announced in December, 1956 in The Northern Miner new…

HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Ontario Mining Association Chairman Andy Rickaby, addressing a lunchtime crowd in downtown Toronto to kick off Ontario Mining Week (in mid-October), points out the uses to whic…

DEMAND FULLY MET Robert Stanley, president of International Nickel Co. of Canada, reports that all war and ordinary demands are being fully supplied. He adds that none of the company’s products is bei…

Inco Ltd. is spending heavily to secure its future in Thompson, Man. In addition to the C$108 million already committed to the 1-C orebody at the main Thompson mine, Birchtree reactivation and the Tho…

HOYLE POND’S GENESIS In the september, 1990 issue of the Northern Miner Magazine, the article entitled “Falco’s Golden Egg” refers to the Hoyle Pond discovery and states: “Gold was discovered in 1976 …

Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…

The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…

Toronto-based Lencourt (TSE) has failed to raise the $5 million needed to purchase a 72% stake in Zairean mining company Sominki and its Belgian subsidiary Cogemin S.A. Lencourt said due diligence stu…

Higher gold output from the Joe Mann mine at Chibougamau, Que., allowed Campbell Resources (TSE) to remain in the black during the first nine months of this year. The 27% owned Northgate Exploration (…