Haileybury students receive cash awards
Recently a number of students at the Haileybury School of Mines were awarded scholarships for general proficiency or outstanding academic performance. Among the winners were Darwin Fiske (Saskatchewan…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
COATS (Over-the-counter) McNickel gains 5 cents
Shares of McNickel traded heavily for the week ended July 31, jumping 5 cents to close at 20 cents on a volume of 216,500. Rumour has it that the Muscocho group of companies, of which McNickel is a me…
Output boosts Minnova profit
Added production from the Ansil and Samatosum polymetallic mines, which both entered commercial production last summer, resulted in a 10-fold profit increase for Minnova (TSE) in the first half of 199…
U.S. REPORT Asarco building new SX-EW plant
At a capital cost of US$54 million, Asarco (NYSE) says it plans to build a new solvent extraction- electrowinning (SX-EW) plant at its Silver Bell mine in Arizona. The new facility, which should be co…
Production imminent at Goldpost’s Hislop
The Hislop East gold prospect in the Timmins-Matheson area of northern Ontario is inching closer to production as partners St Andrew Goldfields (TSE) and Goldpost Resources (TSE) forgo a final bulk sa…
On the Move (August 03, 1990)
Software system manufacturer Jonas & Erickson has appointed Robert Garbutt to the position of president and chief executive officer. Garbutt was recently senior vice-president at MAI Basic Four in the…
Anatomy of a spill
A provincial court has ruled that negligent management and improper maintenance procedures caused a spill of contaminated uranium mine water at Rabbit Lake, Sask., on Nov. 6 and 7, 1989. During a peri…
50 Years Ago – The Northern Miner, August 1940
NOT A STRIKE IN CANADA A most significant announcement has been made by the Dept. of Labour in Ottawa, which reports that there was not a single strike or lockout in progress in Canada at the end of J…
Liners for Leaching
The need to protect groundwater resources from the contaminating effects of toxic liquids has created a thriving market for the manufacturers of synthetic, “impermeable” geomembranes. Miners seeking t…
The Refractory Riddle; A large amount of gold is trapped in
An outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in northwest England in 1900, as recorded by Dr. Ernest Reynolds in the British Medical Journal on Nov. 24 of that year, changed the way toxic hazards are regulated. …
New Ground
I would like to draw your attention to a regular column that we initiated with the June issue and that will become a fixture within these pages. We have called the column “Habitat,” which, to risk sta…
Suppliers’ Notes (August 03, 1990)
Minpro Ltd. has installed Ecuador’s first modern gold-processing plant. The 120-tonne-per-day mill, shipped in modules from the company’s Mississauga factory, will be treating a rich gold ore. Among t…