Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Something is going on in the Canadian uranium industry. It’s happening rather quietly, and it doesn’t involve the junior resource sector or most of Canada’s major mining companies. Foreign companies a…

As a boy, I first learned about platinum from my great-grandfather, a metallurgist who, back in the 1870s, worked it in high-quality laboratory equipment and dentistry. In those days, inventive minds …

Norman Keevil Jr, president of Teck Corp., suggested last year that a price turnaround for copper couldn’t be far off. The reason? His board of directors was almost unanimously negative on the red met…

Silver prices have been more volatile than gold since the beginning of 1988, but the metal failed to sustain a rally. By early fa ll, it was hovering in the $6.25 (US)-per-oz range, about the price at…

Three deposits of hematite ore, two of which are high-grade and suitable for direct treatment by bessemer processes, and altogether containing an estimated potential of 1,000,000,000 tons, are descri…

Geological deduction, following close study of structure; subsequent diamond drilling to horizons 1,000 ft or more below surface; and faith in conclusions reached. These were the factors which have re…

The mining of sphalerite, the ore mineral of zinc, is headed for a downturn in Canada. But you’d never suspect it, judging from the amount of money being spent developing new mines and modernizing old…

In the summer of 1915, Thomas Creighton and five fellow prospectors staked what has become one of the biggest mining operations in Canada. But at the time, they believed it to be a gold deposit. The c…

I recently received a phone call I from a senior executive asking for I an employment reference on an individual he was about to hire. He started off by saying: “I’ve offered the job contingent upon a…

While it probably would be difficult to find anyone who would suggest gold entirely lost its lustre in 1988, more than a few would concede that its price performance excited only bearish investors. St…

Discussing last week’s congressional election results, Business Week says: “The business outlook has been immensely strengthened by the election results. Businessmen are divided between the Democrat…

Scandinavian mining technology is playing a prominent role in Canada’s newest nickel mine. The mining method — longhole raise mining — selected for the bulk of the 2.58-million-tonne orebody under N…