Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

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…