Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Walter Guppy has probably seen more of Vancouver Island than any other prospector alive today and he’s recounted his experiences in a paperback called WetCoast Ventures: mine finding on Vancouver Isla…

Striking employees of Gibraltar Mines’ (TSE) copper mine and mill near Williams Lake, B.C. accepted an offer by the company to settle a 6 – month work stoppage. Art Brown, mine manager, said the propo…

Partners Westmin Resources (TSE), Tanqueray Resources (VSE) and Estaurum Mines (ASE) continue to receive encouraging results from drilling on their Little Stull gold property in Manitoba. Results from…

A definitive agreement is expected within 3-4 weeks which will see a 78% interest in the Summit gold property in New Mexico go to Biron Bay Resources (TSE) and Steeple Rock Mining in exchange for expl…

Not as volatile in the marketplace or as expensive as its sister- metal platinum, palladium nevertheless has achieved a following which is keeping its supply more or less in balance with demand. Tendi…

More money is being spent on rock mechanics research than ever before. The Mining Research Directorate in Ontario estimates there is $100 million being spent in Canada this year and about $20 million…

Recently, Robert Stanley, chairman and president of The International Nickel Co. of Canada, said there are more than 8,000 standard alloys of which some 2,300 contain nickel. Such is the broad field i…

Ontario gold production made a gain of $8,156,735 in the first nine months of 1938, compared with the first three quarters of 1937. The amount produced in the period was $75,220,595. The Porcupine bel…

Another new find in the Northwest Territories appeared on the records this week with the report of a promising gold discovery by prospectors of Inspiration Mining & Development Co. The find was at a p…

The state of Nevada is widely Tknown as a gaming mecca. It’s Talso a magnet for gamblers of another sort — gold explorationists. For example, since 1979, at least 30 heap leach gold mines have been p…

Normet Canada Another Finnish mining equipment manufacturer has set up shop in Canada. The latest company to be welcomed to Sudbury, Ont. is Normet Industries Canada, whose Finn parent has manufacture…

Siscoe Gold Mines is embarking on a large and exhaustive campaign of diamond drilling on the 19th level at a depth of 2,475 ft, The Northern Miner learned on a recent visit to the property. The main s…