Articles by Northern Miner Staff

George Peebles has a mining assignment that ambitious uranium miners would give their eye teeth for. Cigar Lake is the pre-eminent technical challenge in uranium mining today. The deposit is highly ra…

The Key Lake mine, on the south eastern rim of the Athabasca Sandstone Basin in northern Saskatchewan, has been producing uranium since 1983. The first of two high grade open pits has been exhausted b…

Not all underground mine vehicles are directly involved in bringing muck to surface. Auxiliary equipment is needed by all mines to move miners from place to place, to handle heavy materials and for a …

In Ontario the list of “tipster sheets” and “advisory services” is growing so quickly that the Ontario Securities Commission in response to public requests is investigating the situation. The “tipster…

At the annual meeting Macassa Mines Ltd. held March 23rd, shareholders were told by the president, R.A. Bryce, that there was every indication that ore results on the three new bottom levels would be …

In 1938, Noranda Mines enjoyed its best year of operations to date. Tonnage treated, production and earnings were at the highest point on record, a satisfactory financial position was maintained, and …

Preparations are being made to resume work at the property of Kiena Gold Mines, Limited, in the Siscoe area of Quebec. First work will be the extension of the north-easterly bearing crosscut on the 43…

Golf anyone? Tennis? Maybe commandeer one of Key Lake’s seven fishing boats and troll for lake trout? Or lift weights, shoot pool, play raquetball, curl, sweat it out in the sauna or choose sides for …

Concentrates from the Redstone nickel mine — Ontario’s newest — are being shipped to Sherritt Gordon Ltd.’s (TSE) nickel refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. Situated near Timmins, Ont., the Redston…

To say the Wellgreen polymetallic sulphide project in the Yukon has its skeptics is something of an understatement. A subsidiary of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting is said to have lost about $20 million …

The metals sector took a double- barrelled blast from plummeting gold and copper prices. The gold and silver index lost another 37.77 pts to close at 5254.69 pts whereas metals and minerals managed a …

Tusk Minerals (ASE) has exercised its option to earn an additional interest in a gold-copper property near La Ronge, Sask. The property includes the former producing Anglo-Rouyn mine which closed in 1…