Articles by Northern Miner Staff

With a revamped board of directors and at least two hard rock mines on the horizon, Queenstake Resources (TSE) has resumed the practice of forecasting gold production. In the past few years the compan…

Your May 15 editorial “Rock Mechanics Research should be put to use” does a disservice to your readers with the mistaken impression that mine managers pay only lip service to the integration of rock m…

Toronto-based affiliates Jascan Resources and Atlantic Goldfields (COATS) recently resolved their differences after internal squabbles threatened to develop into a hostile control battle. The two comp…

Ian McAvity, president of MVP Capital (TSE) faced a withering barrage of quesions from angry shareholders at the company’s annual meeting. Shareholders vented their anger at the meeting, demanding a…

Black Hawk Mining (TSE) has acquired the right to purchase a 75% interest in a large nickel deposit in Manitoba from Canamax Resources (TSE). Known as the Minago property, past drilling by Amax Canada…

International Platinum Corp. (TSE) has drilled its best holes ever on the Big Trout Lake platinum- palladium property in Ontario. Five of tens holes intersected platinum- palladium values in excess of…

Equipment and related technology which can be used to produce titanium and titanium alloy powders have been acquired by Sherritt Gordon (TSE). The company says it will be able to develop a new line of…

The Magnacon gold project in northern Ontario suffered a couple of weeks delay but it is up and running and precipitating gold, said a spokesman for Muscocho Explorations (TSE). Steve Brunelle, vice-p…

Underground drilling has encountered a probable extension to the Quill zone at the Bunker Hill zinc-lead-silver mine at Kellogg, Idaho (N.M., May 22/89). Bunker Hill Mining (VSE) re-activated the oper…

Toronto-based Chelsea Resources (VSE) was recently negotiating with several mining groups in a bid to resolve its financial problems. Chelsea and its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary Chelsea Resources (U….

Out of a total workforce of about 412 (including salaried employees on staff), the fact that Key Lake’s maintenance department employs 154 workers says something about the operation’s priorities. “May…

In many respects, seismic reflection profiling is like listening to a voice echoed from a cliff. For land seismic surveying, sound is either generated by explosions or by powerful radio-controlled vib…