Articles by Northern Miner Staff


ON THE MOVE Ground Control

Larry Alexander has been appointed sales manager for Ground Control (Sudbury). He has more than 15 years experience in the mining industry. The new position will offer increased service to support Gr…



TECK CORP. Some Other Coal Properties More met

Teck Corp. holds (subject to a 5% assessable interest by Ranger Oil) 25 coal licences immediately to the east of the Bullmoose property. Elevations range from 1,000 metres above sea level at Bullmoose…


PROFILE A Practical Academic

Ask 76-year-old Teck Corp. founder Dr Norman Bell Keevil Sr which mine remains his favorite. The answer is not one of the company’s recent multi-million dollar ventures but his first find in 1954, the…


SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Scintrex Ltd. (May 01, 1987)

The sixth edition of the Catalogue of Geophysical and Geochemical Instrumentation is now available from Scintrex Ltd. More than 20 new products, including the highly successful igs Integrated Geophysi…


TECK CORP. You Can’t Judge a Mine by its Reserves

Published reserves at Teck Corp.’s 100%-owned Beaverdell mine show enough silver ore for just one more year of mining. But don’t write the epitaph for this operation just yet. There has seldom been mo…


Editor’s Note Teck’s Future

When we sat down to plan for an issue of The Northern Miner Magazine that would feature Teck Corp., we did so because we felt Teck was an example of the best in Canadian mining. Teck has been an innov…



CROSS-CUTS SIR JULIUS IN TROUBLE

The family of Sir Julius Chan, deputy prime minister of Papua New Guinea, is reported to have made a profit of $1.4 million(A) through the 1986 initial share offering of Placer Pacific, a company cont…


TECK CORP. In the Blood

The same excitement and zest for making mineral discoveries that characterizes the juniors is still shared by Teck’s exploration arm. In the comfortable Vancouver office of John May, president of Tec…



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