Articles by Northern Miner Staff

As development activity continues at Madeleine Mines’ (TSE) Lac des Iles palladium/platinum project near Thunder Bay, Ont., one of the company’s biggest shareholders has been buying the stock. Accordi…

The go-ahead to develop the Snip gold deposit north of Stewart, B.C., has been given by operator and 60% owner Cominco (TSE). The balance of the project is owned by Prime Resources Group (VSE). Approv…

The first gold and silver dore bar was recently poured at the Adelaide Crown open pit gold mine in Humboldt Cty., Nev. The mine is operated by Gold King Consolidated (NASDAQ), which leased the propert…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in US cents per lb.) July 115.90 114.20 114.40 + 6.05 Aug 114.90 114.05 114.10 + 6.50 Sept 114.80 112.90 113.10 + 6.25 SILVER (in US c…

You don’t have to look far to find today’s mining frontier. It lies just north of the well-developed string of gold mines stretching from Val d’Or in the east to the Ontario border in the west, and k…

In late April, the snow was off the ground at the Casa Berardi mine in northwestern Quebec. Temperatures hovered at a tolerable 12/7ch/C, and black flies and mosquitoes had yet to emerge from the vast…

Berlet Electronics of Mississauga, Ont. has appointed Thomson Technology of Sudbury as the northern Ontario representative for Telemotive radio remote controls. As the largest manufacturer of industri…

CHINS UP “We shall never surrender,” declared British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. And never in all history has a more stirring battle cry gone out from the leader of a free people bent on the de…

Adding pure oxygen to a conventional cyanide leach circuit has several advantages. It reduces the consumption of cyanide, lime and lead nitrate; it reduces the requirement for compressed air; and it i…

In almost every joint venture or other property acquisition agreement wheremoney is spent on exploration, development or other mining work, the operator is allowed to charge an allowance for overhead …

IP Time Domain Equipment A new line of induced polarization (ip) time domain equipment is available from Androtex Ltd. of Mississauga, Ont. The instrumentation is easy to operate and employs the lates…

Through a period in the late 1980s when too many new domestic gold projects failed because the operators did not adhere to even elementary principles in proving up reserves and developing mines, opera…