Calendar (March 01, 1990)
April 1-5, Sparks, Nev. The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Great Basin. At the Nugget Hotel. Contact Geological Society of Nevada, Box 12021, Reno, Nev. 89510. April 2-6, Birmingham, England. Metalwo…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
WHAT’S NEW
ELECTRIC TROLLEY TRUCK Wagner Mining Equipment, now owned by Atlas Copco, has introduced a 350-hp electric trolley truck. The EMT-439, equipped with a 1,000- volt, 3-phase electric motor, has a payloa…
LOUVICOURT’S LOCKSMITH; Aur Resources’ Howard Stockford
When geologist Howard Stockford thinks about the major new copper-zinc discovery made by Aur Resources in Val d’Or, Que., a broad smile breaks across his face. It’s not hard to appreciate why. The Aur…
CHARGE IT
CHARGE IT We learned recently that nickel/copper production has been suffering at Falconbridge’s Sudbury refinery. Faced with a critical demand overload, Ontario Hydro triggered a clause in its electr…
FOUND: RED DOG
We are writing to correct the story of how the Red Dog deposit in Alaska was discovered (TNMM, January, 1990). The following account comes from Robert Griffis, who was a member of the Watts, Griffis a…
On The Move (March 01, 1990)
Thomas Zarnke has been promoted to plant manager at ME International’s Northern Automatic Electric Foundry operation in Ishpeming, Mich. He joined the company in 1985 as engineering and maintenance su…
GEOLOGICAL JACKPOT
The Louvicourt copper-zinc-silver-gold massive sulphide deposit, 24 km east of Val d’Or, Que., has 35.9 million tons (32.5 million tonnes) of geological reserves. These grade 3.11% copper, 1.34% zinc,…
Montreal Exchange Casa Berardi interest
Investor attention continues to be directed toward Quebec’s Casa Berardi area where a couple of seniors and a junior pulled an encouraging drill hole in a joint project in Douay Twp. Four initial hole…
Equipment exhibition in sudbury June 19-21
The northern Ontario city of Sudbury, Ont., will attract a large number of visitors from other parts of Canada and around the world when it hosts the 1990 Canadian Mining & Industrial Equipment Exhibi…
Ottawa doing away with CEIP
Less than two years after introducing its Canadian Exploration Incentives Program (CEIP), the federal government is eliminating the controversial scheme in an attempt to reduce the burgeoning deficit….
Fire River seeks new properties
Fire River Gold (COATS) says discussions are under way with its underwriter to raise new financing for property acquisitions and additional exploration work on its Alice “A” gold-silver property, east…
People (February 26, 1990)
BRANER RESOURCES — Mark Wallbom appointed to the board of directors.