Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The Silidor gold deposit, within the city limits of Rouyn-Noranda in northwestern Quebec, has been put at the top of Noranda’s list of probable mines. Noranda Exploration President John Harvey says pr…

Among the highlights of the 1986 activities of the Cape Breton Development Corp. (devco) were: steady progress in the development of t he new Phalen mi ne; a major expansion of the corporation’s coal …

Canada’s coal industry has yet to recover from a drop in world demand. The result has been oversupply and a 30% fall in prices for both metallurgical and thermal coal between 1982 and 1986. The future…

The Quintette coal project is near Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia. It has long-term contracts for the supply of 5 million tonnes pe r year (plus or minus 5%) of high-quality metallurgi…

Last year represented the second full year of operation of the Obed mine, which started producing in the fall of 1984. The open-pit mine is 24 km northeast of Hinton, Alta., and is a joint venture ope…

A temporary dock has been completed at Couteau Bay, on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. Over the coming months, it will be used to dock a $3- million supply vessel, Couteau Supplier, which will …

Since production started last May, Blackdome Mining’s gold project, 150m iles north of Vancouver, B.C., has exceeded expectations. Indeed, it is probably the highest grade gold mining operation in wes…

A new temperature and precipitation sensor and a snow-melting control unit, developed by Environmental Technology (South Bend, Ind.), are now available. The sensors, called the cit-5 and cit-6, conver…

Ascolectric of Brantford, Ont., has introduced a rodless linear drive system which moves heavy out-of- balance loads without additional guidance. Called the Power Beam, the cylinder can move loads of …

Crows Nest Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell Canada, operates the Line Creek mine in the Elk Valley area of southeastern British Columbia. T he company also holds extensive coal rights in …

The search for platinum group metals by Technigen Platinum and Equinox Resources is proving to be one of the most aggressive in the country. They recently concluded an agreement for a property near Ro…

Based on 155 diamond drill holes to date totalling some 33,000 metres, ore reserves at Seabright Resources’s Beaver Dam property have increased to 2,949,412 tons grading 0.27 oz. This reserve figure, …