Articles by Northern Miner Staff

With an annual exploration budget of $4 million — $16 million committed for the next four years — the ground-breaking Quebec Crown corporation, Soquem, is bound to make its presence in the mining in…

An exploration agreement has been reached between Minefinders Corp. and Tracker Resources involving the latter’s 20 claims in Duplessis Twp. in the Bachelor Lake area of northwestern Quebec. Minefinde…

Well into gold and oil and gas exploration, and soon to be a silver producer, International Platinum still has every intention of making a name for itself in platinum. “We’re determined to become the …

Toronto-based Wilco Mining has entered into an option agreement with prospectors David Petrunka and Wayne McChristie of Thunder Bay, Ont., covering a group of 45 unpatented mining claims and two paten…

The Montana Tunnels project of Pegasus Gold was officially opened last week. Over 500 guests attended the commissioning of one of the lowest grade, conventional gold mining operations in the world ne…

Many of Canada’s mills are small and old. With workforces of only two or three operators, there would be very little advantage in reducing operating costs through automation. So it seems safe to say t…

Gold miners in the nation’s biggest gold camp might be mining some pretty lean ore over the next 2-3 years. Instead of mining ore that averages no less than 0.065 oz gold per ton, as they do today, mi…

The world’s largest producer of tungsten ore, Canada Tungsten Mining Corp., has turned out a software program, as yet unnamed, to help run its worldwide operations and affiliates. CanTung is part of t…

With 300 men now engaged, and 50 or 60 more to be added, the Sherritt Gordon mine again becomes an important factor in the mining industry of the country. This property, out of production for five yea…

Denison Mines of Toronto has found itself in a happy situation thanks to some new technology. An efficient extraction method called solvent extraction and a revolution in solid-state physics could boo…

A peace-time invasion of Canada by Oriental capital in quest of metals for industrial purposes is in actual progress, evidence received this week from Vancouver by The Northern Miner reveals. Active s…

The Malartic boom in Quebec, long heralded, is now a fact. Essentially a medium-grade, large-tonnage district, Malartic was discovered, on a recent tour, to have three east-west ore breaks that appear…