Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

Galesburg, Ill.-based National Seal Co. has announced a $6.3-million, 2-phase capital expenditure program to boost manufacturing capacity. Featured is the world’s largest flat sheet extruder of hdpe g…

William Bondar and Malcolm Clegg chuckle about it now, but the time their Whitehorse assay lab mixed up separate core samples from a customer was really no laughing matter. The samples went into a dry…

The new president of Brampton, Ont.-based Marubeni Construction Machinery Canada is Masayuki (Mike) Kataoka. He replaces N. (Bill) Watanube who returns to Tokyo, Japan as deputy general manager of the…

Discovered in the early 1960s by Egil Lorntzsen, the Lornex orebody was the first porphyry copper deposit developed in British Columbia’s Highland Valley. Shortly thereafter, the larger and higher gra…

A Reuters report out of Darwin, Australia says a 62-year-old prospector who has been “scratching away for years” with a pick and shovel about 1,000 km south of the city has found a vein of almost pure…

When Quintette Coal decided to truck-haul coal from its newly opened Shikano pit to the process plant three kilometres away, the haulage trucks had to cross a public access road. For safety and effici…

Three new hydraulic rock breakers rated at 200-, 250- and 500 ft-lb are now available from Teledyne Canada Mining Products in Thornbury, Ont. The largest breaker, called the tb-180, delivers 850 blows…