Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Teck Corp. holds (subject to a 5% assessable interest by Ranger Oil) 25 coal licences immediately to the east of the Bullmoose property. Elevations range from 1,000 metres above sea level at Bullmoose…

Ask 76-year-old Teck Corp. founder Dr Norman Bell Keevil Sr which mine remains his favorite. The answer is not one of the company’s recent multi-million dollar ventures but his first find in 1954, the…

The sixth edition of the Catalogue of Geophysical and Geochemical Instrumentation is now available from Scintrex Ltd. More than 20 new products, including the highly successful igs Integrated Geophysi…

Published reserves at Teck Corp.’s 100%-owned Beaverdell mine show enough silver ore for just one more year of mining. But don’t write the epitaph for this operation just yet. There has seldom been mo…

When we sat down to plan for an issue of The Northern Miner Magazine that would feature Teck Corp., we did so because we felt Teck was an example of the best in Canadian mining. Teck has been an innov…

The new president of the Association of Professional Geologists and Geophysicists of Quebec (apggq) is France Goupil. An engineer and geophysicist, Goupil won the Dominique-Rollin Award of Excellence…

The family of Sir Julius Chan, deputy prime minister of Papua New Guinea, is reported to have made a profit of $1.4 million(A) through the 1986 initial share offering of Placer Pacific, a company cont…

The same excitement and zest for making mineral discoveries that characterizes the juniors is still shared by Teck’s exploration arm. In the comfortable Vancouver office of John May, president of Tec…

Teck Corp. holds 34 coal licences in an area about 40 km to the northwest of the Bullmoose mine. Burnt River coal is ranked as semi-anthracite and 30-40 million tonnes of reserves could be recovered b…

The euphoria, though less feverish than in the early 1980s, is still with us. You can feel it in the office towers on Bay Street and you can almost taste it in the booming towns of northwestern Ontar…

Exploration is slated for the Kowkash project following an agreement-in-principle reached between Montreal-listed Bruneau Mining Corp., Toronto-listed Canamax Resources and Tashogan Minerals, a privat…

The sizzling market in gold shares cooled its heels this week as investors, not surprisingly, devoted themselves to profit-taking. The gold and silver index dropped 80.57 pts over the week to close at…