Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Westbank Resources (VSE) has discovered a polymetallic showing on its property in Ben Nevis Twp., Ont. The find is located less than a mile from the Peter Roche showing on which a 325-ft shaft was sun…

Leaching operations have been delayed at MinVen Gold Corp’s (TSE) Gilt Edge mine in South Dakota because of a leakage problem with a leach pad. Seepage was detected in the upper liner of the multiple-…

Although eastern markets and the Canadian dollar slumped in sympathy with the Tory drop in the polls, the VSE ignored all that and had one the busiest, most exciting trading periods seen here for quit…

United Keno Hill Mines (TSE), an affiliate company of Falconbridge Ltd reported another loss, this time for the third quarter ended Sept 30. For the period, the silver mining company lost $1.9 million…

Since taking over as operator of the Platoro project in southern Colorado just over a year ago, Panorama Resources (VSE) completed 1,500 ft of drifting on the 9,700-ft level and drove a decline to the…

Two recent events may be causing some of our readers to take a closer look at the warrants being offered by Corona Corp. (TSE). Those events are the merger of Corona’s five predecessor companies (Inte…

A new reserve estimate has been prepared for the AT zone at Cathedral Gold Corp.’s (TSE) Porcher Island property 35 miles south of Prince Rupert, B.C. The latest estimate is based on 78 holes represen…

Stratmin Inc. (ME) has signed a 15-year agreement with Asbury Graphite Mills which gives Stratmin the right to lease and operate Asbury’s mill near Notre- Dame- du-Laus, Que. The lease will enable Str…

I have pondered for several years the potential role of mining geologists in rock mechanics/strata control aspects of mining, and agree with the comment in your editorial (N.M., Oct 17/88. “Rock mecha…

While attention has been focused on the price of copper of late, another base metal has been showing its strength. Zinc is on the move after a summer lull, the spot price of the metal recently hitting…

We pulled on overalls, stepped into high rubber boots, donned hardhats, checked our lamps and got into Mine Foreman Reg Swain’s new Toyota Jeep. As daylight faded behind us, our eyes adjusted to the g…

Flintabbatey Flonatin. How awkward a civic handle that would have been for the town fathers. Fortunately, the discoverers of the great orebody that became the guts of the Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting …