Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Bullmoose coal mine, in northeastern British Columbia, is a joint venture of Teck Corp. (51%), Lornex Mining Corp. (39%) and Nissho-Iwai (Canada) Ltd. (10%). It is managed and operated by Bullmoo…

The Obed mine, in west-central Alberta, enjoyed its best year ever, selling just under one million tonnes of thermal coal. However, the mine is still producing at only one-third of its 3-million-tonne…

Reserves at Energex Resources’ Al property in the Toodoggone area of British Columbia have been increased to 1.9 million tons grading 0.157 oz gold per ton in the combined drill-proven, probable and p…

With respect to the article on Dolphin Explorations in your Jan 18 issue, I feel obliged to point out, somewhat along the lines of Mark Twain’s comment, that the suggestion that Robert McCallum and To…

Recently, a newspaper article indicated that the former owner of a company that was responsible a couple of years ago for a spill of polychlorinated biphenals (PCBs) in northern Ontario was back in th…

With its head office in Calgary, Fording Coal employs about 1,240 personnel in Alberta and British Columbia. Established in 1968 to develop coal reserves, Fording is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cana…

Esco Ltd. of Scarborough, Ont., is marketing a new steel tooth for bucket wheel excavators. Using a casting technique developed at the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology’s Physical Metall…

Straight drop of $40 for all power up to 8,000 h.p. for Ontario and Quebec mines in 1938 — successive reduction of past eight years brings savings to customers to million dollars a year. Canada North…

Despite a recent drop in the price of gold bullion, a couple of Alberta gold issues were big traders this week. After a recent lull in investor interest, Argus Resources posted a volume of 400,200 — …

A second- phase drill program has been completed at the Kinsley Mountain property of Cominco Resources International in Nevada. U.S. Minerals Exploration is the company’s joint venture partner in the …

John Deere has redesigned its compact crawler line and has introduced a new line of machine sizes. The all new 70-hp 450G, 80-hp 550G and 90-hp 650G dozers provide more quality and value than any of J…

The executives at Pegasus Gold may not have heard the old saying about the guy who tried to get blood from a stone, but if asked about the mining company which became famous for extracting gold from l…