Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Energy, Mines & Resources (EMR) is setting up a new regional research office in Quebec and in today’s tight fiscal regime, it has to rob someone else to pay Quebec’s way. EMR has five research labs in…

Mining and other industrial companies are finding there is something to be gained from tough, new anti-pollution laws; they can secure for themselves a clean reputation from cleaning up. Inco Ltd. has…

Denehurst Ltd. was formed in 1987 to acquire the Woodlawn base metal mine near Goulbourne in New South Wales from CRA Ltd. The mine, developed as an open pit in the mid-1970s, was nearing the end of i…

Upper Canada Mines announced this week in a letter to shareholders that its new, 150-ton mill (near Kirkland Lake, Ont.) is ready for turning over. It was expected that operations would begin Oct 5. O…

Squeezing more gold out of old tailings isn’t easy, but LAC Minerals has found a way. It took a full year, but the company finally has ironed the wrinkles out of its tailings retreatment operation in …

We write as solicitors to Efrem Specogna regarding your feature, “Debating the Discoveries,” in the July, 1988, issue. Specogna, along with Giovanni Trinco, did the initial prospecting and, in 1970, m…

Perched between the Dumagami mine/mill complex to the east and Bousquet No. 1 headframe to the west on Preissac Road, north of Cadillac, Que., is the new Bousquet No. 2 headframe. Saddled with the tas…

Two generalizations apply to the total Hemlo orebody. First, the grade decreases going from east to west, so that the David Bell mine (owned jointly by Teck Corp. and Corona Corp.) has the highest ave…

I hold a stock certificate dated March 14, 1975 for 44 shares of a company called Auric Resources, formerly Consolidated Nicholson. Can you please give me a status report on Auric Resources. J.A. Thor…

Metallurgists at the Kidd Creek Mmine in Timmins, Ont., have been watching the automotive industry in Japan very closely. Not because they buy a n ew car every year, but because that particular Japane…

When he was plucked last year from his job as manager of mineral exploration for Western Mining and sent to Toronto to run the Australian company’s new North American mining wing, Jim Laylor’s mandate…

The possibility that the Russians may try to seize the big metal mine and plants in northern Finland, which International Nickel has been developing, has cropped up again. The Petsamo nickel mine, con…