Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Our association certainly agrees that the environment is important. Our members and their families are also part of the environment. In fact, our members are much more aware of the environment than th…

The American Copper Council (ACC), based in New York City, is offering a foreign trade seminar for executives involved with the copper industry at its June meeting in Quebec City. The 2-day seminar wi…

A writeoff of $4.3 million was declared by Rouyn Mining Resources (TSE), which for 1990 reported a loss of more than $4.9 million (42 cents per share). The company said the writeoff reduces the book v…

A navigatonal and positioning device of considerable accuracy has been developed by Telefix Canada of Richmond Hill, Ont. Known as the Magellan GPS 1000, the unit can determine latitude, longitude and…

Raise reamers designed and manufactured by Machines Roger International of Val d’Or, Que. have entered the market. The first machine was the V-30, capable of reaming an 8-inch pilot hole to 30 inches …

I am disgusted at the attitude displayed in your editorial entitled “Our Man at Thompson” [see December 1990 issue]. The licence that you took describing the city of Thompson in the way that you did i…

In the previous Law article, The Environmental Audit (see our January, 1991 issue), we left the corporation and its directors with a completed environmental audit that pointed out both actual and pote…

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874-1937) first successfully transmitted over the English Channel in 1899 and across the Atlantic in 1901. Only pulse transmisssions were possible at the time and it was r…

I am told that in the Kirkland Lake gold mines of the 1940s, there was resistance to the newfangled jackleg or pusherleg drill that Atlas Copco had just invented. Resistance appeared on two fronts. Wo…

CANADIAN MALARTIC DOUBLES ORE Another substantial increase in ore reserves, leading to consideration of plans for expansion of milling facilities, has been the principal feature of results at Canadian…

Not new to the overseas aggregates industry, but a relative newcomer to Canada, is the Barmac crusher, distributed by Wajax Industries of Markham, Ont. Developed and manufactured in New Zealand, this …

Gold funds as of Mar. 26 BGR Central Net Value $9.07 $5.11 Price $8.00 $4.650 Discount 11.80% 9.0% Value $54,030,833 $78,232,995…