Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Ore reserves and grade control can be managed dynamically to satisfy both mineral processing and management requirements by shipping a balanced mill feed grade and adjusting mine-planning to economic …

It’s no secret that pouring base metals matte in smelters built shortly after the turn of the century goes hand-in-hand with pumping acid rain-causing sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Ask any smel…

I read with interest your “Cross-cuts” article in the June issue about the golden bungle at Delnite Mines on June 2, 1950. I was the chief geologist at that time and George Vary (mine superintendent) …

Diamond drilling contractor N. Morissette Canada announces the retirement of Dave Anderson. He joined Morissette in 1962 and has been president and general manager since 1976. In total, he has close t…

Nineteen-eighty-eight has seen unexpected prices for most mine products. Base metal markets have been characterized by very tight immediate supply from terminal markets leading to very high prompt pri…

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…