Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Bradley Bros. of Noranda, Que., has developed a pollution control system that it says satisfies every environmental regulation concerning pollution control in all Canadian provinces. Developed for two…

Atlas Copco Canada of Montreal has brought its aut omated drilling jumbo to the Canadian market. Called the Robot Boomer H135, the rig features two but 35 booms for drilling mine openings which have c…

Two events last week, one coinciding in time with the other, brought a considerable degree of encouragement to Canada’s beleaguered mining industry. One was the unveiling, in Ottawa, of a new federa…

A unique group met recently at the Haileybury School of Mines in Ontario, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Haileybury College, Hertford, England, its namesake. A luncheon meeting of civic a…

Sharpe Energy and Resources has acquired 292 claims in the Ming’s Bight area of Newfoundland close to where Noranda Exploration made its mineralized occurrences discovery last year. Noranda discovered…

In our April issue we examined ways in which the management of a mine can undermine the effectiveness of its first-line foreman. Sometimes management fails to provide any policy guidelines for mainten…

Kennecott’s concentrator at Copperton, Utah, is getting 33 new 3,000-cu-ft flotation machines this year to recover copper, molybdenum and gold from the Bingham Canyon open pit copper mine. The new con…

There are always exceptions to the rule. Trading in resource issues this week on the Montreal Exchange was generally off, if the falling mining and minerals index was any indication, but a couple of s…

The Soviet Union and China substantially increased sales of gold to the West in 1986, says the British firm Consolidated Gold Fields. Sales from the Communist bloc, at 402 tonnes, were almost twice th…

Spot closing prices in Pound Sterling per tonne Date May 26 May 25 May 22 May 21 May 20 Copper 915.5-916.5 N/A 918-919 908-909 914.50-915.50 Lead …

Drilling to date from the Aw zone on Yorbeau Resources’ Astoria property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., totals 32 intersections, of which 78% have assayed gold values in excess of 0.1 oz per ton, President…

Newhawk Gold Mines reports it has completed a private placement of one million units, through Richardson Greenshields of Canada (U.K.) as exclusive agent. Each unit consists of one Newhawk share and …