ECM seeks partners on Nevada prospects
Five gold exploration properties in north central Nevada have recently been acquired by ECM Inc. The properties, located in Lander and Eureka Counties, cover a total of 52,000 acres in Nevada’s Cortez…
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Ventures buying Eastmaque shares
Control of Eastmaque Gold Mines (TSE) is slowly slipping into the hands of Ventures Trident, a Colorado-based mining investment partnership. Ventures has purchased 900,000 preference shares of Eastmaq…
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 SHAFT WORK AT JEROME
Shaft-sinking by hand steel has been started at the Jerome property of The Mining Corp. of Canada, in the Opeepeesway Lake area, S udbury mining division. In the third-quarter report of the company, i…
POLAR PRODUCERS
POLARIS You could say it’s about as redundant as hauling coal to Quintette or gold to Hemlo. Polaris, the world’s most northerly metal mine, requires underground refrigeration. The cooling is necessar…
Specs AN INDEX TO LHSs
Reliability, productivity and flexibility are the hallmarks of any load-haul-dump (LHD) machine worth its weight in ore. Striking an appropriate balance for the job at hand is a tough job for an equi…
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 …
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…