Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Think you know a lot about gold? Well, it’s probably not as much as Will Felderhof, president of Jascan Resources and a managing director of A.C.A. Howe International, a mining and exploration consult…

Heavy-duty truck bed liners, constructed of vulcanized layers of 60- durometer rubber have been introduced by Semperit Industrial Products of Montvale, N.J. Compared to steel liners, these liners offe…

The largest component of Cominco’s new lead smelter at Trail, B.C., will be built by ebco Industries, a company from Richmond, B.C. Lurgi Canada, a subsidiary of Lurgi GmbH of West Germany, has placed…

Les Concepts Alu-Metal Canada of Saint-Hubert, Que., has introduced a new excavator bucket made of a lightweight aluminium alloy called Scandia 400. The buckets have been designed to increase strength…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) June — — 65….

When you look for trends in an industry, the lea ders are often the b ig guys. Well, by far the biggest open pit mining operations in this country are Alberta’s oil sands operations north of Fort McM…

Relief from the crushing supply situation facing Canadian potash producers could come this year in the form of an “Act of God.” While the 6.7 million tonnes produced in Canada last year exasperated wo…

Tony Clark Consulting (Vancouver, B.C.) has acquired the rights to market techbase, a database software system developed by Minesoft of Denver, Colo. The agreement covers British Columbia and “adjacen…

Conspec Controls (Buffalo, N.Y.) is marketing a computerized mine management system capable of scheduling mine equipment maintenance and monitoring various environmental factors such as over- and unde…

A working option joint venture has been signed by Pomac Mines and Acadia Mineral Ventures dealing with Pomac’s property in northwestern Ontario. Acadia has been granted a 3- year option to earn a 51% …

The National Research Council has opened a Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal. The centre, equipped with pilot plant facilities, will be used to carry out research and development work in bi…

Goulds Pumps Canada (Mississauga, Ont.) has published two new technical brochures that give specifications on its entire line of pumps. Featured is the company’s new line of double suction pumps which…