Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A first-quarter profit of $20,000 was recorded by Laduboro Ltd. (formerly Laduboro Enterprises) of Montreal compared with a profit for the same period in 1986 of $31,800. Revenues during the quarter w…

The results of a preliminary drilling program conducted recently on Continental Exploration’s and Ronrico Exploration’s 30-claim group in Gaudet Twp., Que., have produced some encouraging results. Aft…

The Florida Canyon mine, in Nevada, (85%-held by Pegasus Gold of Vancouver) has installed a 457-m mobile conveyor and ore-stacker. Manufactured by the R.A. Hanson Co. of Spokane, Wash., the mobile con…

What is a royalty? In virtually all cases, it is a right to be paid money. Whether or not a royalty-holder will ever actually receive any payments may be open to question and will depend upon a number…

Two lubricants — one that increases diamond drill bit life and one for pneumatic drilling — have been developed by D. A. Stuart Inc. of Scarborough, Ont. Designated Dasco CS-7-J, the new diamond dri…

Continuous Mining Systems (Sudbury, Ont.) has replaced the steel chain conveyor table on its CL-1000 Oscilloader with a single-ply kevlar conveyor belt. John Kelly, manager of mine research for Inco L…

With the passage of enabling legislation by the Ontario government, the way is now clear for the Algoma Steel Corp. to proceed with its plans for bringing the Helen mine, in Michipicoten, into product…

It’s almost embarrassing — and somewhat insulting — how some influential Canadian institutions view the mining industry. The worst gaffe we’ve heard in some time comes from Maclean’s, a magazine tha…

The Estrades is a 2.68-million- ton mineral inve ntory of base metal- and precious metal- bearing volcanogenic massive sulphides. Located about 150 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and 26 km east of t…

A new multi-user version of the micro maint plant maintenance software program has been introduced by Digonal Data Corp. (Lakeland, Fla.). The new version allows one user to enter work orders on one k…

Twenty-nine claims were staked in 1986 on Central Crude’s Mishibishu Lake property in northwestern Ontario, the company reports. The staking, performed to protect the western extension of recently dis…

The International Atomic Energy Agency is planning to hold a technical committee meeting on the uranium resources and geology of North America in Saskatoon, Sask. The dates for the meeting, which will…