Core Shack THE MOBRUN DEPOSIT
The Mobrun polymetallic massive sulphide deposit, 30 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is owned 70% by Audrey Resources, the operator, and 30% by Minnova Inc. The deposit hosts reserves of 1.6 million …
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LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE
In the article “Compressed Air, Naturally” in the November issue, the following was stated: “Thus was born, in 1910, the world’s first and only water-powered compressed air plant — the Ragged Chutes …
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 DOME RESUMING AT EAST END
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…
CROSS-CUTS SUPERCONDUCTING R&D
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…
GEOLOGY OF THE NANISIVIK DEPOSIT
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…
LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE A Perennial Problem
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…
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 MAGNET BUILDS MILL
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…
Editor’s Note GETTING THE STORY
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…
THE NANISIVIK MILL
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…
NANISIVIK MINE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
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…
POLAR PRODUCERS NECRO-CON
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…
POLAR PRODUCERS FARO
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…