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MSV Resources (ME) has raised $300,000 through a private placement with SOQUEM, a provincial Crown corporation. MSV has issued to SOQUEM a total of 937,500 class A shares at 32 cents per share.

When the Bousquet No. 1 mine was found, not only was a prime gold orebody revealed, but it also opened up the entire Cadillac treasure trove in northwestern Quebec. In a few short years four new orebo…

Robotech Industries Ltd., through distributor Northern Consolidated Equipment of Sudbury, Ont., has introduced a remote-controlled skid steer loader that would be handy in hazardous underground situat…

There have been mineral claims on the Doyon property for a very long time. Sporadic exploration produced sufficient proof of mineralization to tantalize various owners for well over 40 years. But it w…

PAMOUR PROSPECT GROWS CHEERY At Pamour Porcupine, west-end developments continue to be very favorable. The Northern Miner can say that more than two years’ mill supply — better than one million tons …

Since 1972 Gibraltar Mines has operated a medium-sized, copper-molybdenum open pit in the Cariboo country of British Columbia. To improve the economics of a low-grade operation, Placer Dome (the major…

The Cadillac area of northwestern Quebec is very fertile ground in the hunt for gold. The two Bousquet mines (LAC Minerals), the Doyon mine (LAC and Cambior Inc.) and the LaRonde mine (Agnico Eagle) h…

Contouring of grade times width values is commonly used as an aid in exploration, to recognize and project mineralized trends. A more rigorous application of the contour method can also be used for re…

Two new road-graders specifically designed for underground mines were recently introduced by mining equipment manufacturer Getman Corp. at its plant in southwestern Michigan. In a ceremony attended by…

The science of the workplace environment, called ergonomics, takes on special meaning underground. After all, there aren’t many workplaces that have solid rock above, below and beside the worker. Fall…

It is nothing more than a mere printed line on a claims map and a surveyed picket line in the bush, yet as insubstantial as it seems this represents the boundary between LACs Bousquet No. 2 mine and A…

The Northern Whiner? On reading the Editor’s Note “Stranded” (Summer Issue), I think you should rename the magazine “The Northern Whiner”. You open with ominous warnings about NDP government and concl…