Articles by Northern Miner Staff

When Teck Corp. put together an international consortium to buy a controlling interest in Cominco Ltd., it was not so much a story of David toppling Goliath as one of David simply looking out for his …

By just about any measure, Teck Corp. is the model mining company of the 1980s. The foundation of the com pany’s future is its low-cost, long-life orebodies. They are the envy of the mining world, di…

British Columbia’s Highland Valley area was one of the worst-hit mining districts in the country when the recession of the early 1980s brought lower metal prices. However, a restructuring of the three…

Teck’s oil and gas division stems from a predecessor company called Canadian Devonian Petroleums. In 1963 Devonian was amalgamated with other associated companies to form Teck Corp. Canadian Devonian …

Although Teck Corp.’s financial reports carry tidy, organized s naps hots of the company and its investments in exploration companies, it’s clear that Teck has no textbook formula in acquiring or deal…

Try to imagine an orebody containing a metal which, as an alloy, makes steel lighter without sacrificing strength. There is only one other significant producer of the metal, but its deposit is 10 time…

Milwaukee, Wis.-based Allis-Chalmers Corp., which has Swedish business interests, plans to realign its worldwide operations into two separate but related companies. Svedala Allis AB, a new multi-natio…

Terry French has been promoted to automotive product manager for Lincoln, a St. Louis, Mo.-based lubrication and lifting equipment manufacturer.

Maynard Isabell has been named vice-president of marketing of the Michigan- based Simplicity Engineering division of Lukens Inc. He joined the comp any in 1985 after being associated with the Ajax Vib…

Canadian gold stocks gave a very good account of themselves in the recent break of world markets, especially when one considers that the dominant influence in the crash of quotations was the scare ove…

A contract has been awarded to Messrs Shoemaker and Burnham, Toronto, for immediate construction of a 125-ton mill at Curney Gold Mine * * * The property is 12 miles northeast of Cranberry Portage, Ma…

In setting wage scales it has been considered advisable, first of all, to establish a minimum-wage scale which will take care of the workmen’s cost of living and then to add bonuses acknowledging effi…