Articles by Northern Miner Staff

When the Pine Point lead/zinc mine closed last year, the event marked not just the death of a huge pro- ducer, but the end of a true technical pioneer in Canada’s North. The 33 individual Pine Point o…

High-temperature superconductors made a big splash a couple of years back because of highly publicized scientific breakthroughs. Little has been seen on the subject in the popular press of late. Never…

The Mobrun polymetallic massive sulphide deposit, 30 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is owned 70% by Audrey Resources, the operator, and 30% by Minnova Inc. The deposit hosts reserves of 1.6 million …

Despite a barren location (90 km south of the Arctic Circle, where there are no roads or navigable waterways) and an inhospitably cold climate, Echo Bay’s Lupin mine has produced more than 910,000 oz …

Re: October, 1988, page 71 article entitled “Breakthrough in Measuring Stress.” We appreciate that we have the opportunity to elaborate on the new CANMET strain/stress monitoring device by responding …

Shaft-sinking by hand steel has been started at the Jerome property of The Mining Corp. of Canada, in the Opeepeesway Lake area, S udbury mining division. In the third-quarter report of the company, i…

In your Editor’s Note in the October issue, you deplored many companies’ practice of describing their ore reserves in words perhaps inspiring, but actually meaningless. I share your frustration, but n…

An immediate start will be made on the erection of a 100-ton mill at the Little Long Lac property of Mag- net Consolidated Mines, The Northern Miner is authorized to announce. The mill is to be in ope…

Assistant Editor Thom Loree wants it publicly known that his hastily Aarranged departure from Nanisivik had nothing whatever to do with the cold and the howling wind. Loree had been there visiting the…

Roads do indeed lead to resources. The lead/zinc mine in the Pelly River region of central Yukon illustrates this point beautifully. Were it not for the all-weather road there, the 58-million-tonne Fa…

Nanisivik is accessible by ice-strengthened ships from August through mid-October. Shiploads of supplies from Montreal arrive each summer to replace dwindling inventories. An ice-breaking bulk cargo s…

Isolated “fly-in” mines are not the big contributors to the wealth of the north that conventional wisdom assumes. In fact, according to two researchers at Memorial University in Newfoundland, employme…