Articles by Northern Miner Staff

While it may not be a Dome or Hollinger, it’s going to be a good little mine for some years to come. The Bell Creek is the third new mine to be gin produc tion in the Timmins camp in the 1980s and the…

A 10,000-20,000-ton bulk leach test is scheduled to start this spring on the Buffalo Gulch gold deposit, shared by partners Glamis Gold and Amir Mines. Located in central Idaho, the large property inc…

Back in 1984 a 300-ton-per-day Bgold milling operation was being considered. In 1985 that jumped to 1,500 tons per day. In early 1986 it was increased to 1,8 00 tons per day and by the end of 1986 th…

Diamond drill programs to cost approximately $2.5 million have been started on the Nickel Plate Mountain properties of Golden North Resource Corp., near Hedley, B.C. Golden North says the programs, un…

When the managers of Seabright Resources sit down for lunch together, be it at one of the company’s exploration camps or in a restaurant in Sheet Harbour, N.S., the conversation usually touches on how…

A wall-mounted carbon dioxide- monitor has been developed by Toronto-based Levitt Safety. Controlled by a microprocessor with a digital readout, the Riken R1-211, measures carbon dioxide in the 0-10,0…

Sen. Arthur Sauve (Rigaud, Conservative) has given notice in the Upper House that he would move a resolution for the establishment of a many-sided Canadian m ining policy aimed at, among other things,…

A readership survey recently conducted by our editorial staff gave us some very important indications about what you want from The Northern Miner Magazine. Whil e those of you who replied to the surve…

It’s official. The Detour Lake gold mine northeast of Timmins, Ont., will go into underground production, with full production at the rate of 2,000 tons per day expected to be achieved by mid-1988. Th…

After being out of the gold exploration business for nearly seven years, Denison Mines is jumping back in with both feet. And the company is taking aim at the original Gold Coast, specifically the Rep…

Heap leach gold operations are usually associated with the western United States, particularly with Nevada and California, but on the eastern seaboard of Canada there exists a small mine which is the …

Coats-listed Delbridge Mines has raised $350,000 for exploration work on the former-producing DeSantis gold property southwest of Timmins. A stripping and trenching program is under way with bulk samp…