Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Is mankind doomed to someday walk the earth alone, save for domesticated animals and mutant insects? Will we turn our once “Garden of Eden” into a living purgatory, or even blow ourselves off the face…

Mining companies have been traditionally slow in accepting or adopting new tech nology for predictive maintenance. I helped with the installation of such technology at the first planning and schedulin…

Toronto’s fashionable Yorkville district is the last place you would expect to find a down-to-earth mining man. The chic ambience and elegant designer boutiques seem more geared towards the leggy, asp…

Over the nex t few years, Canada’s 70 gold producing mines will be joined by at least 10 major new producers and a handful of smaller ones. If gold prices remain high ($530(C) per oz at presstime), th…

About 120 million years ago, a metal-bearing, carbonate-rich hydrothermal fluid was channelled by a steeply dipping, major strike-slip fault zone which developed nearly 10 km beneath the contemporary…

The mining industry has been intrigued by the application of computers for many years. In fact, from artificial intelligence systems designed to run “smarter smelters” (see The Northern Miner Magazine…

The size of the winnings has yet to be determined. But at the very least, the McCoy/Cove gold-silver deposit in north-central Nevada illustrates how a successful exploration program can boost the over…

Talk about a notable lack of success. In Canada, we produce tons of by-product silver, enough to rank us fourth in the world, and the Sudbury Basin coughs up sufficient platinum group metals to make C…

In 1968, a supposedly stable, near-surface backfilled stope in Timmins collapsed. In 1981, an old stope caved to surface near the town of Malartic, Que., creating a depression 300 ft across and more t…

Gold production at Black Swan Gold Mines’ (VSE) Gabanintha project in Western Australia is presently averaging 40,000 oz per year, Arthur T. Fisher, president, said at the company’s annual meeting. On…

Some financial and technical muscle has been added to the board of directors of Gordex Minerals (TSE) of Saint John, N.B., after shareholders voted to replace four existing directors. The company coul…

Hudson-Yukon Mining Co. Ltd. has merged by amalgamation into All-North Resources Ltd.. Shareholders of All-North Resources will receive one-new-share for each old share; holders of Hudson-Yukon Mining…