Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Employees at Equity Silver Mines are enjoying an excellent safety record but this wasn’t always the case. In 1981, 14 lost-time injuries were recorded and eight the following year. As a result, manage…

Three raises have been completed as part of the extensive surface and underground exploration program at the Magnacon project in the Mishibishu Lake area of northern Ontario, Jack McAdam, president of…

Last May an important research project started up near Sudbury, Ont. An array of accelerometers and hydrophones (highly sensitive, electronic listening devices) were installed near four blasthole stop…

Buried in the tropical rainforests in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea lies one of the world’s most important known undeveloped gold deposits — so big that when it comes on stream in the 199…

During the first six months of 1937, shipments of crude ore to the Trail smelter for treatment from 57 small mines in the Kootenay-Boundary area aggregated 5, 085 tons. This constitutes a new record b…

The new president and chief executive officer of Calgary, Alta.-based American Ore is George Oughtred. Also, Robert Fraleigh and Brian McCom be have been appoint ed as vice-presidents and Michael Per…

A new airborne geophysical and remote-sensing contracting/consulting service is available to the international exploration industry. Robertson Research Internat ional of the U.K. has expanded its geop…

Acadia Mineral Ventures has drilled what President Donald Smith calls “probably the biggest hole to be pulled in the Maritimes.” It’s hole E-5 put down on the east side of the Tangier River on the com…

Production decisions combined with an increase in the gold bullion price brought trading out of its summer doldrums and sent volumes shooting to levels not seen in recent months. For the second week i…

Plessisville, Que.-based Forano Inc. is now associated with the French firm rei which specializes in conveyor equipment for transporting material. Rei holds 30 world records in this field and serves 7…

Four years ago the Quebec government contracted Laval University in Quebec City to conduct a study of the rockbolt types used in the province’s mines. The objec tive of the project was to produce a gu…

The supply of physical gold coming onto the market is less important than it used to be in determining gold prices, according to the analytical monthly GOLDynamics published by B.R. Inc. in Pennsylvan…