1989

In your Editor’s Note in the October issue, you deplored many companies’ practice of describing their ore reserves in words perhaps inspiring, but actually meaningless. I share your frustration, but n…

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…

Assistant Editor Thom Loree wants it publicly known that his hastily Aarranged departure from Nanisivik had nothing whatever to do with the cold and the howling wind. Loree had been there visiting the…

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…

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…

Roads do indeed lead to resources. The lead/zinc mine in the Pelly River region of central Yukon illustrates this point beautifully. Were it not for the all-weather road there, the 58-million-tonne Fa…

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…

Nanisivik is accessible by ice-strengthened ships from August through mid-October. Shiploads of supplies from Montreal arrive each summer to replace dwindling inventories. An ice-breaking bulk cargo s…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…