Articles by Northern Miner Staff

We have heard comments occasionally that readers of mining news sometimes miss the significance of a report because they do not understand the implications of geological information given. Accordingly…

The expected has happened. The pound has fallen and gold has gone to a new high price in London, the world’s one great open market. The news is important, for even though the drop came co-incident wit…

A new, automatic directional drilling tool has been successfully tested in Canada by Redpath Raiseboring of North Bay, Ont. The tool was developed by Bergbau- Forschung and Schwing Hydraulik Electroni…

** CONTINUOUS PROCESSES ** Solids/liquids separation has gone through quite a change over the past decade. This mineral processing circuit was once dominated by drum or disc filters. But the vacuum fi…

Mining in northwestern Quebec is a flourishing business. This fact is well appreciated by those engaged in the search for new metal orebodies, The Northern Miner found on a recent trip through the 100…

The earth-moving technology Tthat makes open pit and underTground coal, salt and potash mining so affordable is making its way into underground hardrock mines. Significant advances have been made in r…

Unless there is war, which now looks remote, the premium in United States funds may shortly diminish, leaving us little gain from a fall in sterling which looks likely to settle the pound quotation at…

In the last instalment on the subject of defaults (see May issue), we left the villain having defaulted under option arrangements and considering the potential of defaulting under farm-in/joint-ventur…

There is a wide distribution in the Tdegree to which process control Tis applied in North American gold mills. We believe that the distribution is decidedly skewed toward pre dominantly manual contro…

More than 700 people in and around the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island make their living in Strathcona Provincial Park, some earning more than $80,000 per year. These people aren’t raking l…

We have all recently been exposed to a jingle on television that asserts “I need a vacation, gotta get away. * * .” We can even relate to it, but what have we done about it? I was part of a discussion…

Treating the natural environment as an unquenchable toxic sponge never was a solution to mining’s waste disposal problems. The mining industry has slowly come to understand this, through the whip of g…