Articles by Northern Miner Staff

ONTARIO Blue Heaven Res — final rec iss offer 2,400,000 @ 45 cents per sh to net $662,400. Harte Res Corp — final rec iss offer 250,000 @ $1.50 per sh to net $235,350. Windy Mountain Expl — final r…

If recent activities by Newhawk Gold Mines (TSE) and Tenajon Resources (VSE) are any indication, the Northair group of companies will be among the new mine-makers in northwestern British Columbia’s St…

There’s probably no other camp in Canada that can boast such a variety of projects at various stages of advanced exploration and development as this area in northwestern British Columbia. It has almos…

Dr Harry Warren, a pioneer biogeochemist and honorary professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia, has discovered that bee pollen laced with naturally-occu…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…