Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

Nickel may not possess the glamorous appeal of gold and silver but, in 1988, the base metal did just fine without it. Because of an unusual set of circumstances in which record consumption combined wi…

Canada, as the records in the bulky annual number of The Northern Miner revealed last month, is in the midst of a vast program of mineral development. Probably in no country in the world is mining and…

Cobalt, Ont., is justly Cfamous for its silver mines and the turn-of-the- century boom that made it the cradle of Canadian mining. It was a time of unbounded optimism and new developments in mineral p…

Lead surprised just about everyone when it averaged 27 (US) per lb on the London Metals Exchange during 1987, an increase over 18 in 1986. It was a turnaround year for the metal, the price of which ha…

Nippon Mining Company, Japan’s largest producer of copper, is now exploring for precious metals in North America through a subsidiary based in Reno, Nev. A few years ago, Nippon made the decision to b…

An Imperial Metals Corp. (TSE) subsidiary, Anglesey Mining, has encountered zinc-bearing sulphide mineralization in a pilot hole at its Parys Mountain property in North Wales, U.K. The test hole was p…

The bull market in copper doesn’t seem to want to go away. The base metal, which was selling above $1.40(US) per lb at the end of 1987 and has been selling in the $1 range for a good part of this year…