Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Newmont Exploration of Canada has budgeted $6.3 million for exploration in 1988. However, another nearly $4 million will be contributed by joint-venture companies on Newmont-managed ground, bringing t…

Rayrock Yellowknife Resources will spend about $3.5 million on exploration this year. Most of the money will be used in a search for precious metals, including reserve definition drilling on the Costa…

Concurrent with a program of depth development, Pickle Crow Gold Mines has been intensifying the search for subsidiary vein occurrences. Two diamond drills are probing from surface ground contiguous t…

With a registration of 1,585 on the second night, the 39th annual convention of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at Toronto established a new signpost this week in the upward march of t…

It looks very much like the flow-through gravy train is making its last whistle stop. Last year, $1 billion was raised through flow-through share financings for grassroots and more advanced exploratio…

Your introduction to my article, which you entitled “Dubunking a Myth” (see January issue), says: “Junior exploration firms aren’t the mine-finders par excellence they’re made out to be. According to …

In mining court in Toronto recently, Mr Justice Godson reserved judgment in the matter of the application of Kerr-Addison Mines for permission to dump slimes into a bay on the northeast arm of Larder …

“You can send them to charm school, you can polish them up, but real managers are born. If you don’t have the latent talent you won’t be a good manager.” John Hansuld, whose grip on the wide-open thro…

LEP Chemical, a major chemical manufacturer in the United Kingdom, has come up with a rather remarkable solution to the time-consuming problem of repairing conveyor belts which develop tears and rips …

The Canadian mine-finding fraternity is jittery. Over the past three or four years, easy money (relatively speaking) has been available, thanks in large measure to the federal government’s brilliant t…

A new zone of gold mineralization has been discovered 260 ft north of Zone 5, which trends east- west, on the Garrison property in the Matheson area of northern Ontario, Silverside Resources reports. …

Drilling in 1987 returned encouraging results from a section of a shear zone which appears to extend entirely across the East Group gold property in Dubuisson Twp. near Val d’Or, Que., Minefinders Cor…