Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Much of mine maintenance these days is based on the idea you can predict when a machine will fail. The reasoning goes like this: If you know when a component is going to fail and it costs less to repl…

Although modern exploration interest in the Mishibishu area came about as a sort of `overflow’ from the Hemlo gold rush in the early 1980s, it was only until recent discoveries that major companies ha…

In recent years there has been a great deal of money invested in gold mines — new project financing, mergers, acquisitions and the like. Normally, newspaper reports refer only to the size and financi…

Recovery of gold from cyanide leach solutions can be carried out by zinc precipitation, carbon-in-pulp (CIP) and resin-in-pulp methods. CIP has been generally favored as the method in recently constru…

Contrary to what appeared in The Northern Miner Sept 26, QPX Minerals’ QR deposit has reserves of one million tons at 0.2 oz gold per ton.

A discovery by Inco Ltd. (TSE) geologists in 1981 of a gold deposit lying about 60 miles north of La Sarre, Que., recently became a producing mine (Golden Pond East), a positive sign for the Casa Bera…

From an address to the Financial Times World Gold Conference by Gordon R. Parker, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Newmont Mining Corporation. To talk about financing companies is to…

Two drill holes on property in Beauchastel Twp. in northwestern Quebec have intersected “very interesting copper values,” Kimex Resources (ME) reports. The property is located 15 miles west of Rouyn-…

Then comes the interesting part * * * an estimate will be made of what the annual revenue from a mine will be during production to pay for preproduction capital costs. This requires a forecast of what…

Gordon Strasser, a 59-year-old mining engineer, calls it “cookie jar mining.” The term describes a new method of mining those isolated pockets of rich gold mineralization which are too small to justi…

Two mining companies in northern Quebec, Cambior Inc. (TSE) and Audrey Resources (TSE), recently revealed details of forward sales of production. Cambior will deliver, during the last four months of 1…

The phrase “due diligence” is familiar to most people in the business world, but how many people really know what it means? To the average business person, the phrase indicates an extensive, comprehen…