Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Automatic Lubricators A new system of single-point automatic lubricators may help mine operators save money. Perma Distributors describes its product as less costly than central automatic lubrication …

Metals prices have had a pretty good run since the end of the recession. Nickel, for example, touching the US$10.80 mark. Copper edging US$1.69 per lb. But what now? The 1982-83 recession isn’t distan…

DOOM AND GLOOM FOR MANY PRECIOUS METALS Apart from gold, not all is well with precious metals. And a good argument can be made that silver, platinum and palladium should continue to disappoint. The re…

Canadian mining communities have for years pondered, with considerable dread, what would happen when the motherlode runs dry. But the ascendancy of environmental protection as the political issue of t…

Ralph Denholm has been appointed to the position of service manager for Nordberg Machinery in Guelph, Ont. Denholm has been with Nordberg since 1969, most rcently as materials manager. This newly crea…

Increased production at mines in the western U.S. has enabled Amax Gold (NYSE) to report improved earnings for its 1990 third quarter ended Sept. 30. The Colorado-based company announced net earnings …

Surface Water Hydrology, edited by M.G. Wolman and H.C. Riggs. Published by The Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colo. 80301. 374 pages. $60 (hardcover). The …

Beginning to make its mark on the Canadian exploration scene, Battle Mountain Canada, a unit of Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE), recently started drilling a new gold zone in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake mining…

Carlisle Trost elected director.

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US81.50- 85.50 cents per lb. (Oct. 18, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US80-83 cents per lb. (Sep. 6, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Sep. 13, 1990). CA…

Yorkton Securities Inc. appointed financial adviser.

Robert Johnson appointed president succeeding James Watts who remains as a director.