Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A new charging unit for recharging battery-powered mining equipment is now available from Rebuilders Inc. of Fairmont, W. Va. The skid-mounted model 1,300 charger operates on 480/575 volts ac. The cha…

Three new hydraulic rock breakers rated at 200-, 250- and 500 ft-lb are now available from Teledyne Canada Mining Products in Thornbury, Ont. The largest breaker, called the tb-180, delivers 850 blows…

When Quintette Coal decided to truck-haul coal from its newly opened Shikano pit to the process plant three kilometres away, the haulage trucks had to cross a public access road. For safety and effici…

A Reuters report out of Darwin, Australia says a 62-year-old prospector who has been “scratching away for years” with a pick and shovel about 1,000 km south of the city has found a vein of almost pure…

Discovered in the early 1960s by Egil Lorntzsen, the Lornex orebody was the first porphyry copper deposit developed in British Columbia’s Highland Valley. Shortly thereafter, the larger and higher gra…

In preparation for planned drifting on the 1,362-ft level at Perron Gold Mines’ Sleeping Giant project north of Amos, Que., a drilling program has been started to test the H vein, section by section b…

A high grade gold-bearing vein system discovered during the 1987 season by Abermin Corp. will be further investigated by field work and an extensive drilling program next spring. The Wombat zone is at…

Following a successful $1.5-million spring program of drilling and development work, Golden North Resources is spending a further $617,000 to drill the Canty East target area of its Nickel Plate Mount…

For the first time since copper prices began to weaken in 198l, Gibraltar Mines has reported a 9-month profit. Earnings were $963,000 or 8 cents per share, compared to a loss of $3,470,000 or 30 cent…

Analysts who predicted that gold stocks would lead the market recovery could be right; but there’s some question whether stocks will return to the somewhat inflated multiples we saw earlier. Reflectin…

A drilling program to follow up on earlier exploration work is planned by Calgary-based Kapalua Gold Mines on its Briscoe-Bryce gold property in northeastern Ontario. President A. David Birkett report…

Given the recent market crash, you would think investing in securities would be the last thing on anybody’s mind. But the 1987 International Investors Forum held in Vancouver recently suggests otherwi…