Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

The recent merger mania among mine equipment manufacturers in North A merica can largely be attributed to some pretty stiff competition from off- shore. Manufacturers, particularly in Scandinavia with…

Actual Forecast 1983 1984 1985 1986* 1987 1990 (000 tonnes K2O) Capacity 9,165 9,315 9,775 10,575 11,070 1…

Vme Americas is the new name for Clark Michigan. The new company will continue to market its products under the familiar names of Volvo, Michigan, Euclid and Ranger. Five new additions have been made …

Although the local stock market gave little sign of it, in world circles the uneasiness over gold subsided somewhat. Amounts of dishoarded gold offering upon the London market were smaller, showing gr…

An agreement has been worked out between Louvem Inc. and Perron Mines whereby Perron will acquire a 50% interest in the Pascalis-North property and part of the Beaufort property by spending $7 million…

Filtra-Systems (Farmington Hills, Minn.) is marketing a fully automatic, high-pressure filtration system which, the company says, has operating costs 25%-50% lower than other filter systems available …

Brunner Canada has an image problem. Not long ago the company’s drill steel and bits were considered to be of less than the highest quality — similar to stuff your local garageman could churn out but…