Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Copperquest, the first junior mining company to complete a financing in 1990, is now trading in the 23-25 cents range. The financing, done at 21 cents , involved about 1.5 million shares of Copperque…

This is the first of a regular monthly column from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. The role of keeping industry informed of emerging legislation and key political developments ha…

Although a recent drop in the market price of nickel on the London Metal Exchange has prompted cost-cutting action by two of Canada’s nickel producers (T.N.M., Jan. 29/90) big capital expenditure prog…

In your article “Kidd Creek back to running order after Jan. 3 fire” (T.N.M., Jan. 22/90), you state that Kidd Creek is owned by Noranda. I noted that in a recent letter to the editor a reader caught …

The first four holes of a 20-hole surface drill program were completed by Northair Mines (TSE) on the Deception Lake property, 114 miles north of La Ronge, Sask. Northair, which is earning a 51% inter…

50 Years Ago [in] THE NORTHERN MINER, FEBRUARY, 1940 CALL FOR ACTION Right now Canada should be searching for war minerals. Who can say how much or how little we have until we investigate? Prospectors…

Caterpillar Inc., the equipment maker that brought the world the elevated sprocket, has passed another milestone. After just four short years in the field of plus-100-ton trucks, the company has sold …

Calendar March 5-6, Phoenix, Ariz. Metals Week’s 3rd Lead-Zinc Conference. At the Pointe at Tapatio Cliffs. Contact Maryann Whalen, Metals Week, 42nd Floor, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y….

The 1950s were frenetic years for the mining industry. Discovery followed discovery in rapid succession. Brunswick in the Maritimes, Mattagami Lake in Quebec, Ontario’s Geco base metal find and the ur…

Articulated Terex Three articulated dump trucks with payload capacities of up to 40 tons have been introduced by Terex of Hudson, Ohio. They include the 2766 (with a 27.5-ton payload capacity); the 30…

The Yellowknife division of Giant TYellowknife Mines has been Tdogged by high-cost gold production. The mine began operation as an underground mine in 1947 with total aggregate production of gold to d…

SUDBURY PHYSICS LESSON Miners will soon carve out a 10-storey cavern at the bottom of Inco Ltd.’s Creighton mine in Sudbury, Ont. Into this excavation will be placed a massive 12-metre-diameter acryli…