Articles by Northern Miner Staff

It looks very much like the flow-through gravy train is making its last whistle stop. Last year, $1 billion was raised through flow-through share financings for grassroots and more advanced exploratio…

Your introduction to my article, which you entitled “Dubunking a Myth” (see January issue), says: “Junior exploration firms aren’t the mine-finders par excellence they’re made out to be. According to …

In mining court in Toronto recently, Mr Justice Godson reserved judgment in the matter of the application of Kerr-Addison Mines for permission to dump slimes into a bay on the northeast arm of Larder …

“You can send them to charm school, you can polish them up, but real managers are born. If you don’t have the latent talent you won’t be a good manager.” John Hansuld, whose grip on the wide-open thro…

LEP Chemical, a major chemical manufacturer in the United Kingdom, has come up with a rather remarkable solution to the time-consuming problem of repairing conveyor belts which develop tears and rips …

The Canadian mine-finding fraternity is jittery. Over the past three or four years, easy money (relatively speaking) has been available, thanks in large measure to the federal government’s brilliant t…

A new zone of gold mineralization has been discovered 260 ft north of Zone 5, which trends east- west, on the Garrison property in the Matheson area of northern Ontario, Silverside Resources reports. …

Drilling in 1987 returned encouraging results from a section of a shear zone which appears to extend entirely across the East Group gold property in Dubuisson Twp. near Val d’Or, Que., Minefinders Cor…

World crude steel output rose to 734.7 million tonnes in 1987, 2.7% above the tonnage produced in 1986, according to preliminary figures issued by the International Iron and Steel Institute.

Calling himself an “eternal optimist,” Westar Mining President Peter Dolezal is confident the coal company’s problems will be turned around. The problems, he says, are threefold. Coal prices are too l…

Recent press reports have wrongly portrayed Cominco’s large zinc-lead-fertilizer complex at Trail as a threat to employment in Montana and Idaho (N.M., Feb 1/88). The reverse is true. Cominco’s smelte…

Montreal junior Freewest Resources has struck a deal with an Australian mining firm. A subsidiary of “down under” company Ashton Mining has acquired an option from Freewest to earn a 65% interest in t…