Articles by Northern Miner Staff

“I’m now retired but busier than ever,” John Zigarlick, former president of Echo Bay Mines (TSE), told a recent luncheon meeting of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy a…

Clearing the first hurdle in a feasibility study on its Natashquan deposit in Quebec, Tiomin Resources (ME) has produced a clean concentrate of heavy minerals, including iron, ilmenite, zircon and gar…

Looking at stock market performance during the past two years, the trend, in technical terms, could best be described as a sideways correction: the TSE 300 index ran up strongly in late 1990 from the …

Canada should follow Mexico’s lead and issue a general circulation silver coin. Up until the early 1960s, the Royal Canadian Mint struck its dimes, quarters and dollars in silver, but stopped when the…

I believe that The Northern Miner tries to present both sides of any issue, but the Opinion article “Living with the GST” (T.N.M., Jan. 25/93) is too biased. The writer scandalizes the integrity of Ca…

A drill program by Royal Oak Mines (TSE) will test a shear-zone target on recently acquired ground covering the southern half of the Yellowknife greenstone belt. The northern portion of the belt hosts…

Gold production in 1992 rose by more than 13% to 354,298 oz., Cambior (TSE) reports. The company, based in Val d’Or, Que., and with interests in gold-producing properties in Quebec, Alaska and Guyana,…

London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne) Date Mar. 2 Mar. 1 Feb. 26 Feb. 25 Feb. 24 Copper 1471-1472 1475-1476 1514-1515 1497-1498…

Recent preliminary estimates of reserves for the Kabanga nickel deposit in northeastern Tanzania put total reserves at about 25.5 million tons grading 1.19% nickel, 0.2% copper and 0.1% cobalt at a 0….

A joint venture agreement to explore for zinc in China’s Sichuan province was recently signed by BHP Minerals and Sichuan Non-Ferrous Metals Ore Resources Exploration Development Corp. (SREDCO). Based…

Windy Craggy — is this a political decision? With all our technology we still cannot change the fact that mines are built where the ore is. This is not just between mining interests and the environme…

Produced as a co-product with copper and/or nickel, cobalt is experiencing increased supply problems. The metal has application in aerospace alloys, cutting tools, magnets, ceramics and chemicals. A v…