Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Rauma-Repola, one of the largest public companies in Finland, has agreed to purchase the European operations related to the design, manufacture and marketing of crushing equipment of Milwaukee, Wis.-b…

Estimates of Canada’s uranium resources have increased significantly over the past two years, according to Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. New discoveries more than make up for the 25,300 tons of …

Geotech Ltd. of Markham, Ont., has acquired the name and assets of McPhar Geophysics. The purchase brings a line of ground geophysical instruments to compliment Geotech’s established airborne electrom…

The Outokumpu Equipment division of Outokumpu Oy of Finland has purchased the Sweden- based Wenmec Systems AB, manufacturer of material- handling systems for the non-ferrous refining industry. The di…

Though the three new Macassa levels below 3,000 ft are far from being fully developed, there is now little doubt that each of them will be at least the equal of the 3,000-ft level that surpassed any h…

The Montauban and Grand Calumet deposits are geologically similar lead-zinc-gold- silver deposits occurring in the Grenville Province. The lithological, mineralogical and economic similarities are str…

The world’s smallest 4-wheel drive diesel-powered scoop has been developed by John Clark Inc. of Denver, Colo. Called the jci 50m, it has a 1/2-cu- yd bucket and weighs 6,000 lb. It was designed to b…

How dangerous are those tires used in some mining industry equipment? Rimex Supply of Surrey, B.C., a wheel manufacturer and distributor, has made a video about safety procedures for handling tires. R…

Winston Lake, 32 km north- northwest of Schreiber, Ont., is a base- and precious – metals – bearing volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit with drill-indicated ore reserves of 3.1 million tonnes gradin…

M. R. Brown, publisher of The Northern Miner, will be the after- dinner speaker at the Toronto Geological Discussion Group’s annual Christmas banquet this year. Brown, whose career in mining dates bac…

It may be too early in the game to call it a battle, but the action appears to be warming up on the shareholder front at Dickenson Mines, where Pamour Inc. has purchased a 9.9% stake. At the same time…

Shareholders of vse-listed Master Resources & Developments will be asked to vote Dec 8 on whether or not to allow management to sell some 5.3 million unissued shares that sit in the company’s treasury…