Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Since taking over as operator of the Platoro project in southern Colorado just over a year ago, Panorama Resources (VSE) completed 1,500 ft of drifting on the 9,700-ft level and drove a decline to the…

Two recent events may be causing some of our readers to take a closer look at the warrants being offered by Corona Corp. (TSE). Those events are the merger of Corona’s five predecessor companies (Inte…

A new reserve estimate has been prepared for the AT zone at Cathedral Gold Corp.’s (TSE) Porcher Island property 35 miles south of Prince Rupert, B.C. The latest estimate is based on 78 holes represen…

Stratmin Inc. (ME) has signed a 15-year agreement with Asbury Graphite Mills which gives Stratmin the right to lease and operate Asbury’s mill near Notre- Dame- du-Laus, Que. The lease will enable Str…

I have pondered for several years the potential role of mining geologists in rock mechanics/strata control aspects of mining, and agree with the comment in your editorial (N.M., Oct 17/88. “Rock mecha…

While attention has been focused on the price of copper of late, another base metal has been showing its strength. Zinc is on the move after a summer lull, the spot price of the metal recently hitting…

We pulled on overalls, stepped into high rubber boots, donned hardhats, checked our lamps and got into Mine Foreman Reg Swain’s new Toyota Jeep. As daylight faded behind us, our eyes adjusted to the g…

Flintabbatey Flonatin. How awkward a civic handle that would have been for the town fathers. Fortunately, the discoverers of the great orebody that became the guts of the Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting …

When Caterpillar Inc. set out nearly 20 years ago to redesign the track-type tractor, it knew that it was tampering with success. The Cat D9, the biggest Caterpillar tractor on the market at the time,…

In the article “Unconventional Grading” in your August issue, you have made an outstanding contribution to the prevailing confusion about the relationship of the metric system to other systems of weig…

The Namew Lake nickel-copper deposit, 60 km south of Flin Flon, Man., hosts diluted recoverable ore reserves of 2.58 million tonnes grading 2.44% nickel, 0.9% copper, 0.102 g gold per tonne, 4.11 g si…

Without accurate and complete information, no decision can be made, regardless of subject matter. How can a geologist or mining engineer recommend the acquisition of a property or the commissioning of…