Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Choosing the hardware and software for high-tech surveying systems is a lot like buying a stereo system. The question is this: Do you stick with one manufacturer for all your components or do you “che…

For a long time, Canadians have been known, almost universally, as hewers of wood and drawers of water, a phrase which encompasses our supposed economic dependence on our natural resources — includin…

When rock mechanic engineers try to design safe underground repositories for the storing of spent nuclear fuel bundles, they strive for sophisticated and reliable methods of predicting induced damage….

Following the completion of a $2.1-million underground exploration program on the Eastmain project, partners Placer Dome Inc and MSV Resources are expected to reach a production decison by May. Locate…

Mining in Canada is changing. And fast. For years “mining,” to the average Canadian, conjured up images of grizzled prospectors pounding on rocks somewhere in the vast north, searching for a mineral d…

The computer blast model SABREX (Scientific Approach to Breaking Rock with Explosives) is a powerful new tool that can give miners the optimum bang for the buck. To highlight the role of all relevant …

Underground exploration at the snip gold project in northwestern British Columbia should begin sometime in February, says Cominco Ltd., the operator. Delaware Resources will fund the $4.5-million prog…

An option agreement under which Sigma Mines (Quebec) may acquire a 50% interest in the Ligneris gold property of Vior Inc. is nearing completion, Vior reports. The two companies signed the option agre…

Drilling by Proteus Resources has commenced on a 106-claim group property in Garrison and Thackeray twps. in northern Ontario, the Toronto-based company reports. Lac Minerals, which may earn a 50% int…

After ironing out some wrinkles in the system, Gordex Minerals says it is close to completing an expansion program at Canada’s first primary heap leach project. Located at Cape Spencer northeast of Sa…

Ressources Orex has completed an option agreement giving the company the right to acquire a 50% interest in the Goldboro gold property by spending $6 million and completing a feasibility study. Locate…

Chemetics International, a division of cil Inc. of Toronto, has beaten out two other major engineering companies in the hotly contested bid for a major construction project in Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Nora…