Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Split Lake Gold Mines has encountered high grade ore in the shaft being sunk on the Bigstone Bay property. Values increased suddenly at a depth of 20 ft and heavy showings of native gold have been dis…

With almost 20 more mines now producing the yellow metal in Canada, as compared to last year, and prices going higher, the outlook for tomorrow’s gold mines could hardly be brighter. Gold mining in C…

When gold is hot, everybody wants to get involved. Even, it seems, the United Nations. The worldwide organization devoted to promoting world peace is not above a bit of gold promotion, judging from a …

Hope Brook Gold’s heap leach operation was put in place principally to generate early cash flow in the order of $21 million throughout 1987 and 1988. In fact, production from the heap leach has alread…

William Roth has been elected chairman, president and chief executive officer of Pittsburgh-based Dravo Corp. Roth was recently president and chief operating officer at American Standard. He succeeds …

Lifeliner Corp. of St. Louis, Mo., has announced production expansion and new packaging and labeling for Lifeliner/Elbow-patch. Introduced as a means of saving wear-worn metal in the mining industry, …

There’s good news in the mine equipment field for Canadian gold miners. Historically, Finland-based Tamrock has tested its new drill jumbos in Scandinavia. Only when the machines were modified and imp…

The Abresist Corp. has appointed Ray Elbertson as its new sales representative for the East Coast from Virginia to New England. Abresist Corp. is an American manufacturer of abrasion-resistant linings…

The skills, experience and training of maintenance workers should, ideally, be used only for productive, hands-on work. They should move from job to job, knowing exactly what is to be done — with the…

Astro-Arc Co. of Sun Valley Calif., manufacturer of automatic welding systems, has formed the Astro Arc Field Services Division. The division features a field welding demonstration trailer, equipped w…

Not long ago, a young graduate mining engineer had a guaranteed ticket to an exciting career. Jobs were challenging, plentiful and world-wide in scope. There weren’t very many new engineers (or techno…

A new division of Vancouver-based Wire Rope & Rigging Consultants has been established. The Mining Ropes Management division has begun marketing its services on a select basis to companies in the surf…