Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Dallas, Tex.-based Dresser Industries has acquired Pleuger Unterwasserpumpen G.m.b.H. Both companies have manufacturing plants in Canada. The Pleuger ** organization will be integrated with the world…

Mississauga, Ont.-based Peacock Inc. is opening a new addition to its Toronto Service Building. The company is a rebuilder of mechanical equipment, including pumps, turbines, compressors, mine hoists …

Since November, 1986, the mining and investment industries have been awaiting the Ontario Court of Appeal judgment in the case involving Lac Minerals and International Corona Resources. Well, it is he…

Drifting to date on the No. 1 shoot east on the 425-ft level at Straw Lake Beach Mines shows it to be of considerably higher grade than the same shoot on the 300-ft horizon where it showed an average …

Copper was one of the last metals to recover from the economic recession. But whether today’s higher prices will continue is a big question. Even so, the red metal is finally attracting some attention…

During the past season, exploration of the large mining concession in Labrador, held by Labrador Mining and Exploration Co., has resulted in the discovery of two iron ore deposits believed to have pos…

Ten years ago, at the Exploration ’77 meeting in Ottawa, Allan Spector and Wilfred Parker presented a paper entitled Computer Compilation and Interpretation of Geophysical Data. At that time, the geop…

I have just read your article “Very Refined” in the September, 1987, edition. This article reports on “Canada’s private precious metal refiners — Degussa Canada in Burlington, Ont…. and Johnson Ma…

Knelson International Sales of Langley, B.C. has won the 1987 Canada Export Award for Precious Metal Gravity Separators, The awards were announced by Canada’s External Affairs department.

Ecodyne Ltd.’s Graver Water division has appointed Nortec S.G.S. Inc. of Montreal as sales representative for Quebec. Nortec has represented major process equipment manufacturers for more than 10 year…

Scintrex Ltd., a high-tech company based in Concord, Ont., has been awarded the rights to engineer, manufacture and market a portable trace narcotics detector. The detector is the result of four years…

The Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy’s method of mineral claim- staking (commonly known as paper-staking) will likely form the basis of a new, streamlined system of claim-staking for the cou…