Articles by Northern Miner Staff

At first glance, Greg has it made. He has a good job in his chosen field and makes lots of money. He has a wife and family and lives in a nice house, which is almost paid for. He has what virtually e…

It turns out that 1981 might have been a watershed for base metals. Up until then, Canada’s national reserves of the base metals had been on a steady upward path. According to figures compiled and p…

Last fall, 20 senior supervisors from Noranda Inc.’s operations across the country went through an intensive hoist maintenance course. For three days in Toronto and another day in Montreal, the group …

Gold production from Pioneer Metals Corp.’s new Puffy Lake mine, near Flin Flon, Man., was scheduled to reach 75% of design capacity by the end of 1987. By the end of this year, the $18-million underg…

In order to prove or disprove the bare possibility that a second sill exists below the one recently driven through, Northern Empire will diamond-drill vertically below the 1,700-ft horizon as soon as …

It wasn’t official at presstime, but Minnova Inc.’s schedule for its Ansil property just outside of Rouyn- Noranda, Que., calls for a production start-up at the end of 1988 or the beginning of 1989. W…

The Detour Lake gold mine, northeast of Timmins, Ont., shifted from an open-pit to an underground operation late last year. At the time of writing, the operators were processing low grade, stockpiled …

A compact, lightweight and economical surveying instrument capable of angle and distance measurement has been introduced by Nikon, of Garden City, N.Y. The instrument can calculate co- ordinates and t…

Construction could begin by next May on an open-pit gold and silver mine, 45 miles west of Bathurst, N.B. The federal government has kicked in $5.4 million in the form of loan insurance to help cover …

Elliot Lake was a boom town in 1956, the impetus for which was essentially the United States’ need for a secure supply of the yellow powder that had so convincingly and tragically ended the Second Wor…

Canamax Resources is growing at an impressive clip. Last year the Bell Creek mine, in northern Ontario, shipped its maiden dore bar. This year, its Ketza River project, in the Yukon, and the Kremzar d…

Canada’s third tailings re-treatment project is scheduled to start up in Yellowknife this May. Between June 15 and Aug 28 last year, owner Giant Yellowknife Mines ran a pilot plant operation to find t…