Articles by Northern Miner Staff

New York City-based Fenvessy & Schwab Inc. has been restructured in an attempt to focus on asset redeployment and the addition of major new principals , the comp any says. Rolf Genssler has been elect…

The Canadian software firm Jonas & Erickson has opened six new offices across the U.S. and Canada. New locations include New York, N.Y.; Fort Lauderd ale, Fla.; Chicago, Ill.; Denver, Colo.; Winnipeg,…

The application of computers to help engineer new electronic devices is snow- balllng at a rate near 30% per year in the U.S., a new study says. Computer-aided El ectronics Engineering (CAEE) in the U…

In view of the increase in the export refinery price of copper above 11 1/2 7inches, the Britannia Mining and Smelting Co., as of January 16, commenced the payment to its employees of a “copper bonus”…

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 …