Back in June of this year, McAdam Resources (TSE) discovered that a surface crown pillar over an old, mined-out stope at its McWatters property near here was only about 7 ft thick. Worse still, it fou…
Calgary-based Octan Resources (ASE) has agreed to acquire Terra Mines’ (TSE) mill and silver properties at Camsell River in the Northwest Territories, the company said recently. Subject to regulatory …
Toronto’s fashionable Yorkville district is the last place you would expect to find a down-to-earth mining man. The chic ambience and elegant designer boutiques seem more geared towards the leggy, asp…
The mining industry has been intrigued by the application of computers for many years. In fact, from artificial intelligence systems designed to run “smarter smelters” (see The Northern Miner Magazine…
When you want to ventilate the deepest levels of a mine or when you’re in charge of mining the highest-grade uranium deposit in the world, you’re pretty well limited to one kind of machine to get the …
Over the nex t few years, Canada’s 70 gold producing mines will be joined by at least 10 major new producers and a handful of smaller ones. If gold prices remain high ($530(C) per oz at presstime), th…
Mining companies have been traditionally slow in accepting or adopting new tech nology for predictive maintenance. I helped with the installation of such technology at the first planning and schedulin…
The six platinum group metals (PGMs) are elements that possess unique chemical and physical characteristics. Members of the group have been in high demand by jewellers since their discovery in ancient…
Busy Little Bacteria II: One way to deal with ores which contain gold trapped in the crystal lattice of arsenopyrite is to feed it to microscopic bacteria. These little microbes oxidize the sulphides,…
The size of the winnings has yet to be determined. But at the very least, the McCoy/Cove gold-silver deposit in north-central Nevada illustrates how a successful exploration program can boost the over…
In 1968, a supposedly stable, near-surface backfilled stope in Timmins collapsed. In 1981, an old stope caved to surface near the town of Malartic, Que., creating a depression 300 ft across and more t…
Is mankind doomed to someday walk the earth alone, save for domesticated animals and mutant insects? Will we turn our once “Garden of Eden” into a living purgatory, or even blow ourselves off the face…
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