Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

Magnets made of neodymium, iron and boron are about to penetrate the $1- billion world market for permanent magnets. Because of their high strength, low weight and low cost, Nd-Fe-B magnets could capt…

The next time you tell your wife she looks like a million bucks, it doesn’t have to be a lie. A new line of elitist cosmetics can leave her literally glowing. If you’re planning a business trip in Eur…

A wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of American Barrick Resources has launched a $50 million(US) gold- indexed Eurobond guaranteed by American Barrick. The notes allow the company to borrow money at a low …

Ligneris Mineral Exploration has raised $940,000 in a public financing. Drilling is set to begin on the company’s Ligneris Twp. property and on its Glandelet Twp. property, both in northwestern Quebec…