Articles by Northern Miner Staff

World zinc consumption could increase by 2% per year from now until 1990, thanks in large part to the automakers, according to Coopers and Lybrand. The firm, in a recent Global Mining Outlook, links t…

When Canada’s underground mine operators met in Elliot Lake, Ont., recently the talk was about how to achieve excellence when simple survival remains the first priority. By Patrick Whiteway Where are…

Word of a spectacular gold find, made last September in the Red Lake area, has just reached Toronto. Rich gold ore samples in the possession of Tom Johnson, well known prospector and mining man, were …

Scott Campbell has been named director of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Policy, Planning and Analysis.

Curragh Resources, the new owner of the Cyprus Anvil lead-zinc mine in the Yukon, has installed a permanent monitoring system in its mill control room. The company says the system will cut costs consi…

The reason the governments of Canada and other countries cannot mint gold coins or sell gold bars to the public is because this country and certain other countries are not on a fixed gold standard. W…

One of the first questions of visitors to the radium laboratory is: “What does radium look like?” Imagine a small glass tube, the size of a match, partly filled with a gray powder; that is the picture…

Deep indignation, and talk of reprisals, has been aroused in Ontario over Bill No. 5 which has received its third reading in the Quebec legislature and which may be proclaimed law on Friday of this we…

The possibility of strikes at northern Ontario mines was definitely minimized by leading mine managers who were interviewed this week by The Northern Miner in the course of a survey of the situation a…

As a person with some interest in the Canadian mining industry it is not unusual to read accounts of the history of different mining areas. I refer to the article “Focus on Val d’Or” in the January is…

Inco’s Crean Hill mine is using the latest in mining technology minus the diesel equipment. It could become Canada’s safest, most efficient operation when it resumes full production in 1989. By Patri…

Keith Bowley is a Toronto-based maintenance management consultant. This is ** the first of a 2-part article. ** Miners could be described as people in the business of producing and pr…