SUPPLIERS NOTES Stewart Mining Products
Noranda, Que.-based Stewart Mining Products has become a partner in Evain, Que.-based Jacques Gelinas which will soon change its name to Gelinas-Stewart Inc. The two companies have joined forces to in…
1987
50 YEARS AGO The Northern Miner Golden Rose MIll Starts in June
The cyanide mill under construction at New Golden Rose Mines in the Temagami area is expect to be ready to go into operation by June 1, President J. Bradley Streit told shareholders at the annual meet…
ON THE MOVE Ground Control
Larry Alexander has been appointed sales manager for Ground Control (Sudbury). He has more than 15 years experience in the mining industry. The new position will offer increased service to support Gr…
TECK CORP. You Can’t Judge a Mine by its Reserves
Published reserves at Teck Corp.’s 100%-owned Beaverdell mine show enough silver ore for just one more year of mining. But don’t write the epitaph for this operation just yet. There has seldom been mo…
50 YEARS AGO — May 1937 — Plaintiffs Lose Action over Ross Mine
Litigation which has been proceeding for more than a year in connection with the Ross Mine, Hislop Twp development of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, was brought to an end last week by a decision f…
TECK CORP. Some Other Coal Properties More met
Teck Corp. holds (subject to a 5% assessable interest by Ranger Oil) 25 coal licences immediately to the east of the Bullmoose property. Elevations range from 1,000 metres above sea level at Bullmoose…
CROSS-CUTS SIR JULIUS IN TROUBLE
The family of Sir Julius Chan, deputy prime minister of Papua New Guinea, is reported to have made a profit of $1.4 million(A) through the 1986 initial share offering of Placer Pacific, a company cont…
TECK CORP. In the Blood
The same excitement and zest for making mineral discoveries that characterizes the juniors is still shared by Teck’s exploration arm. In the comfortable Vancouver office of John May, president of Tec…
TECH CORP. Some Other Coal Properties Anthracite production
Teck Corp. holds 34 coal licences in an area about 40 km to the northwest of the Bullmoose mine. Burnt River coal is ranked as semi-anthracite and 30-40 million tonnes of reserves could be recovered b…
Editor’s Note Teck’s Future
When we sat down to plan for an issue of The Northern Miner Magazine that would feature Teck Corp., we did so because we felt Teck was an example of the best in Canadian mining. Teck has been an innov…
PROFILE A Practical Academic
Ask 76-year-old Teck Corp. founder Dr Norman Bell Keevil Sr which mine remains his favorite. The answer is not one of the company’s recent multi-million dollar ventures but his first find in 1954, the…
ON THE MOVE Association of Professional Geologists and
The new president of the Association of Professional Geologists and Geophysicists of Quebec (apggq) is France Goupil. An engineer and geophysicist, Goupil won the Dominique-Rollin Award of Excellence…