Northair drilling Deception Lake
The first four holes of a 20-hole surface drill program were completed by Northair Mines (TSE) on the Deception Lake property, 114 miles north of La Ronge, Sask. Northair, which is earning a 51% inter…
1990
Barrick pulls strong hole on Card Lake bet
Assay results from one of six recently completed surface drill holes on Card Lake Resources’ (COATS) Harker Twp. property near Matheson, Ont., include 10.5 ft. grading 0.26 oz. gold per ton and 7.5 ft…
Correction (February 05, 1990)
Reference (T.N.M., Jan. 22/90) to an exploration project in Grevet Twp. near Matagami, Que., by VSM Exploration (ME) and Serem Quebec included an incorrect tonnage figure. Current reserves stand at 6….
Stroud to double stake in Hislop Twp. gold bet
Toronto-based Stroud Resources (TSE) is set to double its stake in a Hislop Twp. gold project near Timmins, Ont., by acquiring the 50% interest held by its former partner Chevron Minerals, a unit of C…
Northern Miner celebrates 75 years in business
A 75th anniversary party for Northern Miner Press became almost as much a farewell party for Richard Pearce, whose family owned the company for 74 of those years, and retiring President Frank Bowles a…
PERFORMANCE TEST: Management at Giant Yellowknife Mines is out to
The Yellowknife division of Giant TYellowknife Mines has been Tdogged by high-cost gold production. The mine began operation as an underground mine in 1947 with total aggregate production of gold to d…
%0 Years Ago
50 Years Ago [in] THE NORTHERN MINER, FEBRUARY, 1940 CALL FOR ACTION Right now Canada should be searching for war minerals. Who can say how much or how little we have until we investigate? Prospectors…
Suppliers’ Notes (February 01, 1990)
Caterpillar Inc., the equipment maker that brought the world the elevated sprocket, has passed another milestone. After just four short years in the field of plus-100-ton trucks, the company has sold …
SUDBURY PHYSICS LESSON
SUDBURY PHYSICS LESSON Miners will soon carve out a 10-storey cavern at the bottom of Inco Ltd.’s Creighton mine in Sudbury, Ont. Into this excavation will be placed a massive 12-metre-diameter acryli…
Calendar (February 01, 1990)
Calendar March 5-6, Phoenix, Ariz. Metals Week’s 3rd Lead-Zinc Conference. At the Pointe at Tapatio Cliffs. Contact Maryann Whalen, Metals Week, 42nd Floor, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y….
THE GOLDEN GIANT MILL; Part 2 — Grinding Circuit Pre-treatment
The following is the conslusion of an article featured in the December, 1989, issue of The Northern Miner Magazine. It ended with a discussion of the “Hemlo treatmen process.” In the original grinding…
LABRADOR LORE
The 1950s were frenetic years for the mining industry. Discovery followed discovery in rapid succession. Brunswick in the Maritimes, Mattagami Lake in Quebec, Ontario’s Geco base metal find and the ur…