PUSH BACK THE FRONTIER
Since base metals deposits in southern Canada are being mined at such great depths today, exploration geologists are being forced to rethink the meaning of the word “remote.” Base metals deposits disc…
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POLAR PRODUCERS
POLARIS You could say it’s about as redundant as hauling coal to Quintette or gold to Hemlo. Polaris, the world’s most northerly metal mine, requires underground refrigeration. The cooling is necessar…
THE NANISIVIK MILL
After it is mined, ore from the Nanisivik deposit is broken up by a jaw crusher. From there, it is moved along a kilometer of conveyors to the grinding mill. In the flotation process that follows, the…
POLAR PRODUCERS NECRO-CON
The acquisition by Nerco Minerals of Cominco’s Con gold mine at Yellowknife, N.W.T., two years ago first exposed Nerco to underground mining. Until that time, Nerco was primarily an open-pit silver pr…
THE NANISIVIK POWER PLANT
Perhaps the most important instalPlation to the town of Nanisivik is the electrical generating station, within the main industrial building. All power requirements at Nanisivik are dependent on this p…
MINING NORTH OF 60
When the Pine Point lead/zinc mine closed last year, the event marked not just the death of a huge pro- ducer, but the end of a true technical pioneer in Canada’s North. The 33 individual Pine Point o…
CROSS-CUTS SUPERCONDUCTING R&D
High-temperature superconductors made a big splash a couple of years back because of highly publicized scientific breakthroughs. Little has been seen on the subject in the popular press of late. Never…
Core Shack THE MOBRUN DEPOSIT
The Mobrun polymetallic massive sulphide deposit, 30 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is owned 70% by Audrey Resources, the operator, and 30% by Minnova Inc. The deposit hosts reserves of 1.6 million …
POLAR PRODUCERS LUPIN
Despite a barren location (90 km south of the Arctic Circle, where there are no roads or navigable waterways) and an inhospitably cold climate, Echo Bay’s Lupin mine has produced more than 910,000 oz …
LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE Stress and Strain
Re: October, 1988, page 71 article entitled “Breakthrough in Measuring Stress.” We appreciate that we have the opportunity to elaborate on the new CANMET strain/stress monitoring device by responding …
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 SHAFT WORK AT JEROME
Shaft-sinking by hand steel has been started at the Jerome property of The Mining Corp. of Canada, in the Opeepeesway Lake area, S udbury mining division. In the third-quarter report of the company, i…
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 MAGNET BUILDS MILL
An immediate start will be made on the erection of a 100-ton mill at the Little Long Lac property of Mag- net Consolidated Mines, The Northern Miner is authorized to announce. The mill is to be in ope…