Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

The ore measures at Sigma, Dome’s subsidiary in Quebec, are continuing to depth in strong fashion, The Northern Miner understands. Sinking the main shaft was recently completed to 2,125 ft. for eight …

In narrow-vein underground gold mining, recent equipment innovations have reflected “the small-is- beautiful” principle. In open pit coal mines, behemoths rule. Take, for example, the next generation…

There probably are more “experts” on the subject of gold than on any other financial entity. But when one lives with the gold market day in and day out and observes how its price continually changes i…

Miners tend to picture a prosperous future when the present is bleak. Half full now as the glass may be, optimists will tell you that in a month’s time (or within one or two years hence) the glass onc…

New and quite interesting gold finds were made by Ken McRae last month at Wampum Lake in the Rowan Lake district, 40 odd miles north of Fort Frances. Several narrow quartz veins have been uncovered an…