Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Your editorial of Oct 9 argues persuasively that tax legislation should be amended to ensure equitable treatment of mine reclamation costs. You may be interested to know that legislation passed in Bri…

The battle lines are being drawn Tfor the world tunnel-boring- Tmachine (TBM) market. And in North America, the Canadian hardrock mining industry is a significant part of that market. Using surface di…

Lead prices have been trending upward since 1985 and currently stand at 42 cents (us) per lb. We expect slumping automobile sales and new mine production to bring them back down to 38 cents (us) per …

Hindsight, as they say, is always perfect. But a pleasing view from that perspective requires prior foresight. As, for example, the foresight displayed by Les Mines Selbaie in 1984, when in the midst …

Re: “The Thiourea Option” and the letter written by D. W. Krueger. I assume that I am the basis for the statement that thiourea is not carcinogenic in man since I did discuss this with the writer of t…

After eight years of nearly continuous worldwide expansion of nickel demand, many analysts seem to assume that the cyclic nature of the nickel industry is a phenomenon of the past. If we examine the g…

Fluctuations in supply, demand and inventories have resultedin a period of som e uncertainty for copper and other metals. By Raymond Goldie and Rob Maiman Last year, while visiting New Zealand, a min…

It’s hard to say exactly when it Istarted, but some time last year Imajor assaying labs across the country began receiving increased amounts of more soil, grab, trench, channel and bulk samples from b…

When Rio Algom started the mine, it had to train the vast majority of its operators. “We had only two shovel operators, one driller and one blaster,” mine superintendent Gary Smith recalls. Since this…

Silver, traditionally the poor Sman’s gold, hasn’t made any investors– well-heeled or impoverished — any money over the past couple of years at least. And, according to forecasts by Shearson Lehman …

Zinc market conditions are extremely tight. The sharp slowdown in the auto sector combined with less buoyant consumer spending overall will act to decrease zinc demand sharply * The new mines coming o…

I was pleased to see the article entitled “Digital Prospecting” in the June issue, for despite its value, the technology may not yet be well known within the geological community. Unfortunately, altho…