Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Falconbridge says it expects to lose about 3,500 tonnes of cathode production at its Kidd Creek copper smelter in Timmins, Ont., after a leak was detected in the converting furnace, Sept. 16. Approxim…

Toronto-based Falconbridge says it is cutting 100 jobs at its Sudbury, Ont., operations, after falling nickel prices forced rival Inco (TSE) to announce a similar move. The western world’s second larg…

About 450 delegates from several countries attended the Second International Conference on the Abatement of Acidic Drainage in mid-September in Montreal. Some 125 speakers at the 3-day conference pres…

Bill Cummins, president of McFinley Red Lake Gold Mines (TSE), says he is still hoping to line up a joint venture partner for the company’s Bateman Twp. gold project near Red Lake, Ont. Under an agree…

Gold! The word has fired our imagination like no other metal, Ontario’s Ministry of Northern Development and Mines reminds us in a recent information circular. The world demand for gold is still mainl…

Despite the current bleak conditions for junior mining in Quebec, some observers of the province’s mining scene have surprisingly bright forecasts for the future. “Quebec is one of the better places f…

Former rivals International Corona (TSE) and Placer Dome (TSE) have reached an agreement for the joint development of the Eskay Creek gold project north of Stewart, B.C., with a view to bringing the p…

A summer visit to the Bousquet No. 2 gold-copper mine of LAC Minerals (TSE) 25 miles west of Malartic, Que., helped securities firm Midland Walwyn in deciding to issue a “buy” recommendation for the l…

Equal partners Uranerz Exploration and Mining and Cameco (TSE) have recovered 160 diamonds from kimberlites on their Fort a la Corne prospect east of Prince Albert, Sask. Although the average weight o…

Partners Aur Resources and Societe Miniere Louvem expect the capital cost of developing their Louvicourt Twp. massive sulphide deposit east of Val d’Or, Que., to be well over $300 million. The two com…

A 1,500-metre hole designed to test the Wanapitei anomaly northeast of Sudbury, Ont., recently got under way. As operator of the “Mirage project,” Falconbridge has collared the deep hole in Sheppard T…

After months of considering various development, milling, and underground exploration options for the Holloway project 40 miles east of Matheson, Ont., Noranda (TSE), as operator, has reached the fina…