Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Teck Corp. manages the small (4,000-oz-per-year) Granville joint venture, in the Yukon’s famous Klondike district on behalf of Balner Enterprises (40%). Operations are seasonal at the placer gold mine…

Mining equipment manufacturers are always on the lookout for areas in which to diversify, and Connellsville Elevator Corp. of Pennsylvania seems to have found a market niche just waiting to be filled….

Albert Fages has been named product manager, filtration products, for Schroeder Brothers Corp., an American manufacturer of diagnostic and filtration products for hydraulic systems.

We read with great interest the March issue of The Northern Miner Magazine dealing with Exploration ’87. We noticed that the picture which was supposed to illustrate the draft article which we submitt…

With the drop in the price of zinc and declining ore grades, Teck has no immediate plans to re-open the Newfoundland Zinc mine although an improvement in price could trigger a production decision. The…

When, in 1968, bush pilot and prospector Bob Baker spotted a mineral-stained creek in northwestern Alaska, he reported the unusual observation to the U.S. Geological Survey. Little did he know he had…

By the time you read this, the Ontario Court of Appeal may have handed down one of the most important decisions ever made by a Canadian court concerning the mining industry — Lac Minerals vs. Interna…

When Cominco’s new lead smelter at Trail, B.C., opens in early 1989, it will mark substantial completion of a half-billion-dollar modernization of the world’s largest zinc-lead metallurgical complex. …

Gold is becoming increasingly important to Teck Corp. bringing the company full circle to its early history as one of Canada’s largest gold mine operators. The “new” Teck emerged in 1963, the golden a…

Teck Explorations will undertake five major programs in 1987 in North America, plus “whatever else comes along,” says President John May. Two of these are former Teck producers (one in Newfoundland, t…

People often assume porphyry copper deposits in British Columbia average less than half a percent copper. They sometimes throw in a little bit of molybdenum just for good measure. The situation is dif…

For 50 years the Lamaque mine in northwestern Quebec turned out enough gold — more than 4.5 million oz — to make it Quebec’s biggest gold producer. Today, little more than a year since the decision …