Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Following a visit to the property The Northern Miner finds the question of pr obable grade of mill feed for the new 500-ton milling unit at Algoma Summit Gold Mines still unanswered. A 75-ton test mil…

In conversation with Karl J. Springer, president of Leitch Gold Mines, The Northern Miner learned that the first gold brick from the new mill should be poured around the middle of the month. Mill tonn…

Japanese consumers have negotiated lower prices and contract volumes for metallurgical coal they will obtain from Westar Mining in southeastern, B.C. The company’s Balmer and Greenhills operations wil…

It was incorrctly reported in the Toronto Stock Exchange column in the Jan 26 issue of The Northern Miner that Campbell Red Lake held a 14% stake in Lac Minerals. Campbell Red Lake holds a 4.5% intere…

Results of a gold exploration program on Oasis Resources’ Souart Twp. property, in northwestern Quebec, are generating interest. A gold-bearing structure 3,000 ft long and more than 750 ft deep is ope…

Zinc oxide wafers are not the latest diet craze, unless you happen to have a yen for low-voltage current. But General Electric is pressing the compo und into a cookie-shaped form to prevent electrical…

In an interim report, Energex Minerals says mineral inventory on its A1 property in the Toodoggone area of B.C., now stands at approximately one million tons grading 0.20 oz gold per ton, combining po…

Evert Ross, one of the pioneer mining contractors in northwestern Quebec, and the founder of Evert Ross Ltd., of Val d’Or (now Ross-Finlay Ltd.), has died at the age of 83. An emigrant from Sweden in …

Dr James Neilson, a consulting geological engineer and former professor of geological sciences at Queen’s University, has died in Kingston, Ont., at the age of 75. A prolific author on geological subj…

Dresser Industries (Libertyville, Ill.) has introduced a new crawler-dozer which has a number of unique features. The TD-15E, as it is called, is the first in the 130-190-hp class to have optional 2-s…

An option agreement has been completed between Cornucopia Resources and USX Corp. (formerly U.S. Steel) for a gold property in Nevada. The agreement covers the 13,000-acre- plus Ivanhoe property in El…

Three years ago an investigative report compiled by the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (canmet) confirmed what many in the mining industry had suspected: that maintenance costs consti…