Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Some very encouraging platinum group metal assays have been returned from All- North Resources’ Wellgreen property, 220 miles northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon. What is particularly attractive about the …

The two stars of the COATS system this week were Goliath Minerals and Golden Sceptre Minerals, which both opened trading at $1. At the market close they hovered around $1.55 each. Stripped of their va…

After nearly 22 years of operation, Potash Co. of America is stop- ping operations at its Saskatoon mine, with resumption not anticipated until mid-1988. Heavy inflow of water is the cause, says Ken C…

Last year the south face of the Afton open pit mine, near Kamloops, B.C., experienced what is known to mine engineers as a “severe toppling failure.” In other words some 7.3 million tons of rock broke…

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…