This year Dome Mines enters upon the active development of the No 6 shaft area towards the east end of the mine, after two years of letting that section lie fallow. This development will carry detaile…
High-temperature superconductors made a big splash a couple of years back because of highly publicized scientific breakthroughs. Little has been seen on the subject in the popular press of late. Never…
The Nanisivik zinc-lead deposit, on the northern end of Baffin Island, consists of massive sulphides within dolomite of the Society Cliffs Formation of Helikian age. Pyrite is the main mineral, but in…
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…
In 1910-11, when the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Arctic wintered on the remote, northwestern coast of Baffin Island, a prospector on board reported, for the first time, the presence of silver, lead an…
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…
An article entitled “Breakthrough in Measuring Stress” appeared in your October issue on Page 71. The article gave the impression that the breakthrough device mentioned was arrived at after combining …
In British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, proposals (more or less offical) have been made in connection with aiding the prospector and the mining industry. In the coast province, Mayor Telford o…
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