Articles by Northern Miner Staff

From time to time, I have written with enthusiasm about the wide applications of platinum group metals, including specific applications in medicine, which embraces chemotherapeutic agents and dramatic…

The latest results from an underground drilling program at the old Duquesne gold mine project north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., confirm the continuity to the west of the main mineralized zones between the…

A unit of Westmin Resources (TSE) recently acquired a 9.9% interest in the Premier Gold project held by a wholly owned subsidiary of Prime Resources Group (TSE). This acquisition boosts Westmin’s stak…

Two drills are working at zone 97 of the Grevet zinc project southeast of Matagami, Que., where VSM Exploration and its project partner, French-controlled Serem Quebec, are hoping to add significantly…

Duport Your article “The Refractory Riddle” was excellent, but contained some omissions: You did not mention that the Duport autoclave and cyanide leach plant would be located on the mainland, outside…

It is a rare sight — a 2-boom jumbo, longhole drills, and a tube-shaped electromagnetic device brightly clad in yellow sitting there at street level in downtown Toronto, dwarfed by a 50-storey office…

The trend to high-technology monitoring and control in minera processing has been heating up over the past few years. In fact, in a recent Statistics Canada survey, nearly 250 mines said they had adop…

Jan 14-15 or 17-18, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Fire Assaying. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 14-16, Ren…

The administration and accounting operations of El-Equip Inc. have been moved to the company’s head office in Sudbury, Ont. The new address is 1078 Kelly Lake Rd., Sudbury, Ont. P3E 5P4. (Phone: 705-6…

The Red Dog project in northwestern Alaska is something of an anomaly. It’s more than just one of the richest base metal mines in the world — it’s a socio-economic alliance between the native people …

If a practice is so common within an industry that it is expe and widely accepted, it can be recognized by the courts as a custom of the trade and, in appropriate circumstances, enforced by the courts…

If you have been rubbing elbows recently with your counterparts in the mining industry, you may have heard the buzz term “IRS” being bandied about. No, they haven’t run afoul of the U.S. Internal Reve…