Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Heavy trading of Golden Hope Mines this week coincided with the company’s release of encouraging results from the Bellechasse gold project south of Quebec City. Grab samples laced with visible gold, i…

Production financing for the Goldstream copper- zinc mine near Revelstoke, B.C., is finally within reach of partners Bethlehem Resources (TSE) and Goldnev Resources (VSE). Two Japanese companies, Nipp…

There is a mystique about the mining industry in the minds of laymen, due in large part to the specialized terminology of the industry. So it is with law. Certain lawyers preen themselves with the use…

Take the computer chips from a truckload of seat belt alarms, run them through a shredder, and then roast them to 1,300deg C. What do you get? Aside from the worthless stuff, 80 oz. of pure platinum. …

North Safety Products Rexdale, Ont.-based North Safety Products is selling two new items: an improved Model 9880 air-purifying respirator and the LSF 2075 style full-body harness. The respirator is eq…

Scintrex Ltd. of Concord, Ont. has been awarded C$2.7 million in contracts by Romenergo, Romania’s second Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor. Scintrex supplied simlar equipment for Romania’s f…

The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…

Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…

HOYLE POND’S GENESIS In the september, 1990 issue of the Northern Miner Magazine, the article entitled “Falco’s Golden Egg” refers to the Hoyle Pond discovery and states: “Gold was discovered in 1976 …

Inco Ltd. is spending heavily to secure its future in Thompson, Man. In addition to the C$108 million already committed to the 1-C orebody at the main Thompson mine, Birchtree reactivation and the Tho…

DEMAND FULLY MET Robert Stanley, president of International Nickel Co. of Canada, reports that all war and ordinary demands are being fully supplied. He adds that none of the company’s products is bei…

HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Ontario Mining Association Chairman Andy Rickaby, addressing a lunchtime crowd in downtown Toronto to kick off Ontario Mining Week (in mid-October), points out the uses to whic…