Articles by Northern Miner Staff

CB Pak and its subsidiary Twinpak Inc. have announced the purchase of 49% of the common stock of Bulk-Lift Canada of Hawkesbury, Ont. Bulk-Lift produces flexible intermediate bulk containers and circu…

A new company, Quantech Consulting, opened its Toronto headquarters in June, 1986, to fill the need for geophysical contracting and consulting on a worldwide basis. Services include underground minin…

What appears to be important new gold discoveries have been made on Norite Bay, Lake Athabasca. The finds were made just before freeze-up, but sufficient information has already been secured to indica…

On Tuesday came the announcement that the copper production restriction agreement had been abandoned. This means producers in Africa, Chile and other countries, which are parties to the agreement, wil…

The first of the 1937 crop of gold producers in Canada made its bow on January 10 with the turning over of the new mill at the Leitch Gold Mines property, pioneer operator of the new Beardmore-Sand Ri…

Woodway Resources of Toronto has purchased the assets of a private, numbered company.

Standing in the yard of Tamrock’s expanding manufacturing plant in Tampere, Finland, James McCormack, a project mine engineer for Placer Development rolls his eyes at a computerized jumbo being demons…

During the last few years i have had the opportunity to work with a number of young geologists from whom I have learned that geological mapping or core-logging is an illusion — an illusion in the sen…

As you read this story there is probably not a single idle exploration rig in the country. Flow-through financing and some excellent exploration results have made sure of that. But the uncertain futur…

The 1985 report to the federal government by the McDonald Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada stated: “In the past, research and development (R&D) in exploratio…

Some 140 million tonnes of tailings, the product of more than 75 years of gold mining in the Porcupine area, are going to be retreated by ERG Resources, making it one of the major gold producers in Ti…

The share price of Comstock Keno Mines, a long inactive company, con tinued to trade in the 37 cents -40 cents range. The company is being reactivated by a financicl company which has plans to seek a…