Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Wotco of Casper, Wy., has introduced a new auger-scraper for use with the Caterpillar 615 wheel tractor. The new 16AS scraper self-loads up to 16 cu yd of material in about one minute. Material flows …

An $11-million research and development program for Canada’s troubled asbestos industry has been launched by the federal and Quebec governments. The money will be spent over a 4-year period, with Otta…

GOLD — History and Genesis of Deposits by Robert W. Boyle of the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Hardback, 676 pages, ISBN 0-442-21162-7, $76.45(C), Macmillan of Canada, 164 Commander Blvd,…

A total of $1.8 million of flow- through share financing has been arranged by Can-Mac Exploration for the 1987 and 1988 exploration seasons. The cash will fund exploration work on several properties i…

“The advantages (of the proposed Placer-Dome-Campbell merger) will far outweigh the disadvantages,” Dome Mines Chairman Fraser Fell assured The Northern Miner, following the annual meetings of Dome an…

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…