Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Eighty-three years ago, Joseph Obalski steered his canoe into a hitherto little-explored mineralized region in the northwestern part of the province. As Quebec’s inspector of mines, he had examined th…

Patrick Whiteway’s article entitled “Artificial Operators,” in the July issue, was very interesting and informative. The quality of the article was unfortunately marred, in our view, by the way you ha…

The Egerton-McLean gold deposit on Pan East Resources’ Fifteen Mile Stream property is in Halifax Cty., N.S., about 62 miles northeast of the city of Halifax. The deposit is estimated to contain drill…

It was interesting reading the letter in the August, 1987, issue from Kelvin Pankiw concerning large zinc deposits. I should like to draw your attention to the Howard’s Pass deposit near the Yukon-Nor…

A collection of unique coal samples that could begin a new era in res earch to make coal use cheaper, cleaner and more efficient has been completed by the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s laboratory in Argonne,…

As most people connected with the mining industry know, the joint venture is a creation of the tax system and therefore cannot possibly be either simple or straightforward. In fact some people find it…

Manitoba engineers and scientists are using bacteria, rockets and computers in the war against unsafe, uproductive and uprofitable mines. The new techniques are being studied under a $25-million resea…

When Juri Houtman left his New York City office last August to move t o Timmins, he really wasn’t prepared for the problems he was about to face. As assistant to the vice-president at Asarco Inc.’s mi…

Degussa Corp. has developed a chemical process, using hydrogen peroxi de, that destroys toxic cyanide complexes found in waste streams by mills that process gold ores. A specially formulated catalyst,…

Woodhead Canada announces a new quick-connect solution for miniature, low-amperage control systems. Micro-Change connectors minimize downtime when control devices need replacement by eliminating the n…

A tramp-metal detector which features a microprocessor control system has been built by Goriong Kerr Canada. Goring Kerr’s model gkd-101 consists of an inspection coil assembly mounted above and below…

Vme Group has delivered its 14,000th articulated dumper — which is more than those of all other manufacturers in the world combined, the company says. Vme’s Volvo bm articulated dumper line was first…