Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A 2-day conference focusing on major markets for industrial minerals, Industrial Minerals ’92, is scheduled to take place Oct. 20-21 at Toronto’s King Edward Hotel. Markets and products to be covered …

Hopes for an economic turnaround have combined with a shortage of new smelting capacity to drive the price of copper to its highest level in 18 months. At presstime, the cash price of the metal on the…

If the annual scholarships offered by the Canadian Mineral Industry Education Foundation (CMIEF) are any indication, more women than ever before are entering mine engineering. Of the 54 CMIEF scholars…

Winners of the 1991 Sentinels of Safety were announced recently by the U.S. Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration and the American Mining Congress. The contest, held annually since …

To add to its diamond exploration portfolio in northeastern Ontario, Strike Minerals (CDN) has optioned a 6-claim property across the border in Guigues Twp., Que. In order to earn a 100% interest in t…

The Nova Scotia government says that the section of the Westray coal mine where a methane explosion in May that killed 26 men is thought to have originated will be examined by investigators. Flooding …

Instead of joining the stampede to the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories, two of Murray Pezim’s juniors recently acquired by staking an equal interest in claims covering a previously dis…

Noranda Minerals, a unit of Toronto-based Noranda (TSE), recently increased its stake in Societe Miniere Louvem (TSE) to 56.6% from 52% by exercising its rights under an agreement signed in August, 19…

Environmental approval is all that is needed for Curragh (TSE) to open a strip coal mine at Stellarton, N.S. The project is three kilometres from the Westray mine where an explosion in May killed 26 m…

Less than two weeks after Vancouver-based Hughes Lang (VSE) withdrew a bid for control of Nova-Cogesco Resources (ME), the Vancouver company has come up with a second offer. Under the latest proposal,…

No development better symbolizes the new attitude in Latin America than the attack on bloated public sector enterprises. These protected activities had locked the economies of the region into hopeless…

The Swiss National Bank does not plan to sell any gold, said Jean Zwahlen, member of its governing board, recently. He was speaking to members of the World Gold Council at a dinner in Montreux, Switze…