Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Minorco SA’s South African- backed bid for the outstanding shares of Consolidated Gold Fields PLC is expected to spark one of the biggest takeover battles in mining history. But even though it will be…

Toronto-based Exall Resources’ (TSE) wholly-owned Gold Eagle property in near Red Lake, Ont. has been earmarked for a 20,000-ft drill program, the Denison Mines (TSE) affiliate said recently. The form…

Mine tailings that are dumped Minto lakes and other bodies Mof water are sometimes viewed with suspicion. Many people worry that the tailings contaminate drinking water. But studies done by Prof Thoma…

Utah-based Gold Standard has signed a joint venture agreement to explore its San Juan Hills gold property in Uruguay. Gold Standard is embarking on the joint venture with Compania Mineral San Jose S.A…

When the zinc famine was on in the U.S. in 1937, resulting in the importation of 45,000 tons, the discovery was made that any preconceived ideas about the amount of the metal in undisclosed inventorie…

Paymaster Consolidated is crosscutting through high-grade ore in the new No. 24 vein on the 2,075-ft. level at the No. 3 winze, The Northern Miner can announce. At presstime, the west wall of the cros…

Once known as John F. Kennedy’s campaign song, the words of that popular tune from the 1960s mirrors the hopeful expectations of every mining company. Armed with a positive feasibility study, more tha…

“Why,” asks a thoughtful subscriber, “do not Canadian banks employ mining engineers?” Why not, indeed? Perhaps some of them do, although the fact is not publicized. However, employment of experts in m…

NEWMONT MINING CORP — Richard B. Leather elected vice- chairman.

As Robert Service said, there are indeed “strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.” But even he would be hard pressed to find anything more unlikely than a heap leach oper…

“A Rockburst Primer” by Dr. David Hedley, which appeared in your July issue, brought back memories. In 1937 or 1938, I was working in a large, flat-back stope in the Lake Shore mine in Kirkland Lake, …

Final approval has been given for the merger of Total Erickson Resources (TSE) with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total Energold Corp., formerly Getty Resources. Under the court-approved arrangement, T…