Suppliers’ notes (September 07, 1990)
A materials-handling operation for gold heap leaching has been successfully completed at Echo Bay Mines’ Round Mountain facility in Nevada. The system is part of the operation’s expansion to 35,000 to…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Letters (September 07, 1990)
Media Circus Re: “Don’t Just Sit There,” by Moira Jackson. Northcare, a community coalition of resource companies and municipalities in North Bay, Ont., is trying to promote the message Jackson sugges…
Engineering a future
Our collective mediocrity has been well-documented. Hewers of wood, drawers of water and all that. The critics charge that we have beavered away for too long, chopping down vast tracts of forest, digg…
At your service
Today there are many developments occurring in the industry that lead us to think that strong changes are taking place and that the nature of mining may change profoundly in the future. This article w…
Cross-Cuts (September 07, 1990)
TOUTING VALUE-ADDED MATERIALS “Canada has traditionally derived wealth from exploitation of natural resources. Canadians are failing to realize that this is no longer the high road to an increasing st…
Buick-Doe Run wins safety award
St. Louis-based Doe Run’s Buick lead mine in Missouri recently won an award for its 1989 safety record, which showed 147,624 employee hours without lost time to injuries. Called the Sentinels of Safet…
Westmin progressing at the Premier project
Although still experiencing cash losses, the Premier project operated by Westmin Resources (TSE) appears to be making progress toward profitability. The open pit gold-silver mine, north of Stewart, B….
Corona now largest Dundee shareholder
Corona (TSE) has become the largest shareholder in Dundee Capital, following the purchase of an additional 750,000 shares and 187,500 share purchase warrants. Corona now owns 2.25 million shares of Du…
Corona acquires Prime shares
As part of a recent agreement with Murray Pezim and two associates, Corona (TSE) has acquired 5.6 million shares of Prime Resources Group (VSE). Pezim, Lawrence Page and Arthur Clemiss also granted Co…
The Ukraine attempts to recover gold cache
The Soviet republic of the Ukraine says it will attempt to recover gold deposited by a soldier in the vaults of the Bank of England 270 years ago, according to a report by the Reuters news service. Th…
China’s base metals production exceeds the West’s estimates
Recent data released by China show that its base metals production is higher than estimated by Western analysts. In the first half of 1990, it produced 280,000 tonnes copper and 400,000 tonnes aluminu…
Montreal Exchange Six drills at Grevet .LThe Mid-East crisis
Trading volume during most of the week was in the range of 4.9-6.1 million shares. The general market portfolio index dropped by 39.6 points and the mining and minerals index fell by 86.8 points. At t…