Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Copper was the only major base metal that closed 1990 up in price over its 1989 year-end quote. It was only a penny or two but still impressive compared with other metals. For 1990 as a whole, however…

World crude steel production in 1990, at 769.6 million tonnes, was 2% below the record high of 785.1 million tonnes posted in 1989, preliminary estimates of the International Iron and Steel Institute …

Until the Lynne discovery was announced last spring, Noranda’s (TSE) substantial exploration efforts in the Midwest and Appalachian districts of the U.S. were unfamiliar to most Canadians. But, as the…

Lead had a good start but a poor finish in 1990. The record shows that from year- end 1989 to the end of 1990, lead was the worst performing metal in terms of London Metal Exchange (LME) prices. This …

Platinum, which characteristically has the attributes of both a precious metal and an industrial metal, ended 1990 on a subdued note. In many ways, last year can be thought of as two distinct halves. …

Mineral exploration is a highly competitive business, yet the key to success may be to combine the knowledge of the competition with that of your own. If you avail yourself in some way of all the peop…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…