Articles by Northern Miner Staff

In the January, 1988, issue of The Northern Miner Magazine on page 64, there appeared a picture with the caption “Prospecting the horse-drawn way in New Brunswick.” This picture was taken at a small c…

Open-cut methods may be applied for mining the entire granite mass lying between the east and west gabbro contacts at the Athona property in the Goldfields section of the Lake Athabaska area in northe…

Everything was quiet around the Delnite mine property on the night of June 2, 1950. The staff from the gold refinery office had long since cleared out and called it a day. Not 50 yards away in a house…

With financial assistance from the National Research Council, a small, publicly listed industrial research company in Toronto is aggressively pursuing Canada’s hard-rock drilling and bolting market. T…

You may be in for a big surprise if your next drilling project in the Canadian Shield hits a pocket of “salty” brine. That is, you may very well find gold nuggets in that brine. One such nugget, conta…

Lake Dufault Mines has moved the second diamond drill on to its property adjoining Waite Amulet in order to broaden the ore search close to the scene of Waite Amulet’s spectacular drill intersections …

Joy Technologies of Kitchener, Ont., has booked an order valued in excess of $12 million for the supply of 10 electrostatic precipitators to Chemetics International of Toronto. The units will be inclu…

As a director or officer of a corporation carrying on business in Ontario, you might not know that you could be liable to a fine in the order of several tens of thousands of dollars and/or imprisonmen…

The Panel mill was rehabilitated in 1979. At the outset, problems cropped up with the old mill; specifically, in the pumping system (which had to be upgraded) and with contaminants in the ore. This la…

Can nations conduct war without gold? Is gold an essential metal when conflicts rage? There are those who have observed Japan and Italy waging war with little gold. They have seen Germany arm and thre…

Thanks to a new grinding concept in the form of rubber magnetic mill linings, considerable savings in energy and grinding media consumption can now be achieved. “In some cases, it (the magnetic liner)…

The main orebody at East Malartic Mines is shaping up into one of the major gold deposits in the country, judging by results of testing on the first three levels. Calculations show that the orebody ma…