Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A second- phase drill program has been completed at the Kinsley Mountain property of Cominco Resources International in Nevada. U.S. Minerals Exploration is the company’s joint venture partner in the …

Despite a recent drop in the price of gold bullion, a couple of Alberta gold issues were big traders this week. After a recent lull in investor interest, Argus Resources posted a volume of 400,200 — …

Straight drop of $40 for all power up to 8,000 h.p. for Ontario and Quebec mines in 1938 — successive reduction of past eight years brings savings to customers to million dollars a year. Canada North…

Esco Ltd. of Scarborough, Ont., is marketing a new steel tooth for bucket wheel excavators. Using a casting technique developed at the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology’s Physical Metall…

With its head office in Calgary, Fording Coal employs about 1,240 personnel in Alberta and British Columbia. Established in 1968 to develop coal reserves, Fording is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cana…

Recently, a newspaper article indicated that the former owner of a company that was responsible a couple of years ago for a spill of polychlorinated biphenals (PCBs) in northern Ontario was back in th…

With respect to the article on Dolphin Explorations in your Jan 18 issue, I feel obliged to point out, somewhat along the lines of Mark Twain’s comment, that the suggestion that Robert McCallum and To…

Reserves at Energex Resources’ Al property in the Toodoggone area of British Columbia have been increased to 1.9 million tons grading 0.157 oz gold per ton in the combined drill-proven, probable and p…

The Obed mine, in west-central Alberta, enjoyed its best year ever, selling just under one million tonnes of thermal coal. However, the mine is still producing at only one-third of its 3-million-tonne…

The Bullmoose coal mine, in northeastern British Columbia, is a joint venture of Teck Corp. (51%), Lornex Mining Corp. (39%) and Nissho-Iwai (Canada) Ltd. (10%). It is managed and operated by Bullmoo…

Chemetics International, a division of cil Inc. of Toronto, has beaten out two other major engineering companies in the hotly contested bid for a major construction project in Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Nora…

Ressources Orex has completed an option agreement giving the company the right to acquire a 50% interest in the Goldboro gold property by spending $6 million and completing a feasibility study. Locate…