Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Euro-Nevada Mining Corp. has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of a 3% net smelter return on the Marigold mine near Battle Mountain, Nev., fo r $2,187,500 (US), decreasing to 1.75% nsr aft…

The result of a recently completed airborne geophysical survey covering an area of 4,000 sq km surrounding Wawa, Ont., have been released, Mines Minister Sean Conway said recently. “These are the firs…

The first William Harvey Gross award, consisting of a medal and a cash supplement through an endowment provided by Lacana Mining Corp., was awarded to Robert Kerrich of the University of Saskatoon by …

With financial assistance from the National Research Council, a small, publicly listed industrial research company in Toronto is aggressively pursuing Canada’s hard-rock drilling and bolting market. T…

Everything was quiet around the Delnite mine property on the night of June 2, 1950. The staff from the gold refinery office had long since cleared out and called it a day. Not 50 yards away in a house…

Open-cut methods may be applied for mining the entire granite mass lying between the east and west gabbro contacts at the Athona property in the Goldfields section of the Lake Athabaska area in northe…

In the January, 1988, issue of The Northern Miner Magazine on page 64, there appeared a picture with the caption “Prospecting the horse-drawn way in New Brunswick.” This picture was taken at a small c…

Your article “The Value of Failure” by William Stanley in the February issue says a great deal about Canadian business and the Canadian banking system. The previous bank manager of the unnamed bank i…

The mine hoisting fraternity in Canada is warming to the idea that micro-computers can control hoisting systems. Noranda has gone the computer control route at its Geco mine, and the company is in the…

About 2 billion years ago when this planet was a chilling, uninhabitable place, a pre-Cambrian stream laden with uranium-rich gravels emptied into a lake or inland sea just north of what is today the …

Backfilling methods are certainly garnering plenty of attention these days. At Kidd Creek, the use of fly ash as a partial substitute for mor e expensive cement in backfill has been used successfully….

The Bousquet #2 stratiform gold deposit, 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and 2 km east of the Bousquet #1 deposit, has ore reserves of 7.1 million tonnes grading 6.4 g of gold per tonne. The deposi…