Articles by Northern Miner Staff

To gain an insight into current maintenance practices and procedures at operating mines, The Northern Miner Magazine recently conducted a maintenance survey of 30 medium-sized underground operations. …

Environmentalism, weak equity markets, an economic downturn, global competiton and a desert war. No question, Canadian mining faces obstacles. The following, a response to our questionnaire on the pag…

The article “the refractory Riddle,” in your August, 1990 issue, was a very comprehensive compilation of information on the subject of recovering gold from arsenopyrite . . . Or was it? One point not …

It’s a good bet armchair critics this year will scrutinize Placer Dome’s Mt. Milligan project, north of Prince George, B.C. It is the country’s biggest potential gold/copper producer, ranking in size …

It has become fashionable to blame the flow-through tax rules for the excesses that led to the mine development failures of the 1980s. But this is not entirely fair. My colleagues and I were in the un…

MUCKING MADE EASIER Eimco Corp. of Salt Lake City, Utah, has developed a mucking machine, the “Tunneloader,” which is not only much larger and more powerful than any of its present models, but also em…

Viola MacMillan is among nine new inductees to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. MacMillan, 88, was renowned as a mine-finder and financier and was instrumental in transforming the Prospectors & Devel…

Privately owned Siderock Gold is planning a 30-hole overburden drilling program this winter on its Joe 3 & 4 claim group situated about eight miles east of the former San Antonio gold mine in Manitoba…

A stepout drilling program is being planned by NCA Minerals (VSE) to follow up a recently completed initial drill program on its San Lazarus property in Santa Fe Cty., N.M. The company released result…

Colorado- based USMX (NASDAQ) announced its second discovery of the year after completing a 32-hole drilling program at its East Top property in White Pine Cty., Nev. The drilling intersected a number…

If the Ontario’s securities overseers are convinced that small investors are no longer wanted, they should go ahead with its plan to charge a flat rate of 50 cents for every trade made on The Toronto …

A long-awaited feasibility study on the Eagle River gold deposit near Mishibishu Lake, Ont., should be ready by the end of the month, says Richard Nemis, president of Central Crude (TSE). The study wi…