Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Diesel load-haul-dump machines (better known as LHDs or simply scoops) revolutionized underground base metals mining in the early 1960s. Their main advantage was the flexibility they offered. In the l…

One of Canada’s foremost technology watchdogs has predicted that the surface mines of the 1990s will be so dependent on computer-based technology that manpower will be reduced to one-third of current …

The objective of geophysical exploration from boreholes is to indicate direction and distance to promising targets. To improve the possibilities for 3-dimensional interpretation of the surroundings, a…

Nothing gives mining a poorer public image in this country than deaths that occur on the job. When they occur, mining fatalities are often played prominently on radio and television and in newspapers …

** A 3-IN-1 PUMP ** Toyo Pumps North America is selling a new pump that incorporates a diaphragm, hose and piston or plunger. Unlike conventional piston/plunger pumps, where pumping product enters the…

The main orebody at East Malartic Mines is shaping up into one of the major gold deposits in the country, judging by results of testing on the first three levels. Calculations show that the orebody ma…

Thanks to a new grinding concept in the form of rubber magnetic mill linings, considerable savings in energy and grinding media consumption can now be achieved. “In some cases, it (the magnetic liner)…

Can nations conduct war without gold? Is gold an essential metal when conflicts rage? There are those who have observed Japan and Italy waging war with little gold. They have seen Germany arm and thre…

The Panel mill was rehabilitated in 1979. At the outset, problems cropped up with the old mill; specifically, in the pumping system (which had to be upgraded) and with contaminants in the ore. This la…

As a director or officer of a corporation carrying on business in Ontario, you might not know that you could be liable to a fine in the order of several tens of thousands of dollars and/or imprisonmen…

Joy Technologies of Kitchener, Ont., has booked an order valued in excess of $12 million for the supply of 10 electrostatic precipitators to Chemetics International of Toronto. The units will be inclu…

Lake Dufault Mines has moved the second diamond drill on to its property adjoining Waite Amulet in order to broaden the ore search close to the scene of Waite Amulet’s spectacular drill intersections …