LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE Stress and Strain
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 …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 SHAFT WORK AT JEROME
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…
LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE A Perennial Problem
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…
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 MAGNET BUILDS MILL
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…
Editor’s Note GETTING THE STORY
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…
POLAR PRODUCERS FARO
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…
SHIPPING CONCENTRATES
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…
Research FLYING HIGH
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…
GEOLOGY OF THE NANISIVIK DEPOSIT
The Nanisivik zinc-lead deposit, on the northern end of Baffin Island, consists of massive sulphides within dolomite of the Society Cliffs Formation of Helikian age. Pyrite is the main mineral, but in…
Chelsea lays out new plan at troubled Spotted Horse
A new leaner Chelsea Resources (VSE) is planning to increase production this year at the troubled Spotted Horse gold mine near Lewistown, Mont. After gaining control of the company, Chairman Fernando …
Metal Prices FUTURES PRICES (January 30, 1989)
N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Jan160.00 155.70 155.70 — 3.00 Mar151.90 147.70 148.05 — 0.75 May139.30 137.00 13…
Takeover threat doesn’t alter Falconbridge’s optimism
For Falconbridge Ltd. (TSE) and its inimitable chairman, Bill James, 1988 was one of those years when the gods appeared to be smiling. Riding on record high copper and nickel prices the Toronto base m…