More resignations at Cheni
Just months after Paul Girard resigned as president, Cheni Gold Mines (TSE) has announced the resignation of Malcolm Taschereau, chairman of the company’s board of directors and executive committee. E…
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People INDEPENDENCE MINING COMPANY INC.
Allan Moran elected as vice-president of the company and manager of U.S. Exploration.
St. Genevieve’s stake in Louvem may be key to settlement with Aur
Just eight weeks before litigation involving the Louvicourt Twp. massive sulphide discovery is scheduled to be heard in court, partners Aur Resources (TSE) and Societe Miniere Louvem (TSE) are attempt…
Corona, Jodamada buy Dundee shares
A family holding company controlled by Dundee Capital Chairman Ned Goodman has acquired more than one million shares and more than a half-million warrants in Dundee, an investment management company k…
ANFO Still Reigns
The 1980s saw a consolidation of the explosives industry. Through mergers and acquisitions, three large manufacturers (ICI Explosives, ETI Inc. and Ireco) now dominate the Canadian underground mining …
The Mill
Kevin Weston is a mining engineer. He was hired by Inco during development of the Casa Berardi East mine and by all accounts he was a talented engineer. So why is he now the mill superintendent? As We…
Motors Matter; ‘High-efficiency’ electric motors are not your run-
As custodians of a wealth of natural resources, Canadians are accustomed to plentiful, cheap electricity. We seldom worry about wasting it. But like communism in Eastern Europe, that attiutude is outd…
On Site At Casa Beradi
In late April, the snow was off the ground at the Casa Berardi mine in northwestern Quebec. Temperatures hovered at a tolerable 12/7ch/C, and black flies and mosquitoes had yet to emerge from the vast…
Development ABCs
Through a period in the late 1980s when too many new domestic gold projects failed because the operators did not adhere to even elementary principles in proving up reserves and developing mines, opera…
The Advantages of O_2
Adding pure oxygen to a conventional cyanide leach circuit has several advantages. It reduces the consumption of cyanide, lime and lead nitrate; it reduces the requirement for compressed air; and it i…
Suppliers’ Notes (July 06, 1990)
Berlet Electronics of Mississauga, Ont. has appointed Thomson Technology of Sudbury as the northern Ontario representative for Telemotive radio remote controls. As the largest manufacturer of industri…
The Northern Miner, July, 1940
CHINS UP “We shall never surrender,” declared British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. And never in all history has a more stirring battle cry gone out from the leader of a free people bent on the de…