Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

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…

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…

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…

Drill hole 70 at the Grevet zinc project near Matagami, Que., intersected 44.2 ft (25.3 ft true width) of economic grade, the widest intersection to date, VSM Exploration (ME) and Serem-Quebec report….

Now that access has been gained to higher grade ore at the El Mochito polymetallic mine in Honduras, American Pacific Mining (TSE) is reporting a substantial increase in production and earnings. The N…

Industrial Mechanical Specialties (IMS) of Thornhill, Ont., has come up with a new way of suppressing airborne dust in underground hardrock mines. John Morgan, an IMS specialist hit upon the idea when…

The Vezza property, 25 km (15 miles) south of Matagami, Que., is owned jointly by Dundee-Palliser Resources and North American Rare Metals. Diamond drilling from December, 1986 to June, 1988 has outli…

At approximately 4:30 p.m. on AFriday, Aug 11, one of the most Adrawn-out lawsuits in the history of Canadian mining came to a close. The country’s highest court finally delivered its judgment confirm…

Onitap Resources (TSE) is seeking funding for a 25,000-ft drill program designed to test the company’s copper-zinc property in Tonnancourt Twp., Que. Hosting drill- indicated reserves of 60,000 tons g…

Issues which have peaked investor interest during the past couple of trading sessions, continued to make progress this week. Golden Crescent Resources, for example, gained 26 cents on large volumes b…

The Williams mine (formerly the Page-Williams), in Ontario’s Hemlo country, burst on to the scene as a gold producer in a flurry of public attention in late 1985. With the spotlight on the ensuing own…