Articles by Northern Miner Staff

When Caterpillar Inc. set out nearly 20 years ago to redesign the track-type tractor, it knew that it was tampering with success. The Cat D9, the biggest Caterpillar tractor on the market at the time,…

In the article “Unconventional Grading” in your August issue, you have made an outstanding contribution to the prevailing confusion about the relationship of the metric system to other systems of weig…

The Namew Lake nickel-copper deposit, 60 km south of Flin Flon, Man., hosts diluted recoverable ore reserves of 2.58 million tonnes grading 2.44% nickel, 0.9% copper, 0.102 g gold per tonne, 4.11 g si…

Without accurate and complete information, no decision can be made, regardless of subject matter. How can a geologist or mining engineer recommend the acquisition of a property or the commissioning of…

Ore reserves and grade control can be managed dynamically to satisfy both mineral processing and management requirements by shipping a balanced mill feed grade and adjusting mine-planning to economic …

It’s no secret that pouring base metals matte in smelters built shortly after the turn of the century goes hand-in-hand with pumping acid rain-causing sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Ask any smel…

I read with interest your “Cross-cuts” article in the June issue about the golden bungle at Delnite Mines on June 2, 1950. I was the chief geologist at that time and George Vary (mine superintendent) …

Diamond drilling contractor N. Morissette Canada announces the retirement of Dave Anderson. He joined Morissette in 1962 and has been president and general manager since 1976. In total, he has close t…

Nineteen-eighty-eight has seen unexpected prices for most mine products. Base metal markets have been characterized by very tight immediate supply from terminal markets leading to very high prompt pri…

Something is going on in the Canadian uranium industry. It’s happening rather quietly, and it doesn’t involve the junior resource sector or most of Canada’s major mining companies. Foreign companies a…

As a boy, I first learned about platinum from my great-grandfather, a metallurgist who, back in the 1870s, worked it in high-quality laboratory equipment and dentistry. In those days, inventive minds …

Norman Keevil Jr, president of Teck Corp., suggested last year that a price turnaround for copper couldn’t be far off. The reason? His board of directors was almost unanimously negative on the red met…