THE PRESSURE IS ON
More money is being spent on rock mechanics research than ever before. The Mining Research Directorate in Ontario estimates there is $100 million being spent in Canada this year and about $20 million…
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50 Years Ago NICKEL
Recently, Robert Stanley, chairman and president of The International Nickel Co. of Canada, said there are more than 8,000 standard alloys of which some 2,300 contain nickel. Such is the broad field i…
50 Years Ago BIG GAIN IN GOLD IN ONTARIO
Ontario gold production made a gain of $8,156,735 in the first nine months of 1938, compared with the first three quarters of 1937. The amount produced in the period was $75,220,595. The Porcupine bel…
CORONA’S NEVADA GOLD A clean heap leacher comes on-stream
The state of Nevada is widely Tknown as a gaming mecca. It’s Talso a magnet for gamblers of another sort — gold explorationists. For example, since 1979, at least 30 heap leach gold mines have been p…
JOLU JEWEL Corona has opened La Ronge’s second gold mine.
Hemlo’s David Bell mine it’s not. But like its much larger cousin, the Jolu gold mine, operated by Corona Corp., is expected to make money — and that’s reason enough to celebrate. Located 130 km nort…
50 Years Ago INSPIRATION MAKES NEW GOLD FIND
Another new find in the Northwest Territories appeared on the records this week with the report of a promising gold discovery by prospectors of Inspiration Mining & Development Co. The find was at a p…
What’s New THE FINNISH LINE
Normet Canada Another Finnish mining equipment manufacturer has set up shop in Canada. The latest company to be welcomed to Sudbury, Ont. is Normet Industries Canada, whose Finn parent has manufacture…
50 Years Ago THE NORTHERN MINER SISCOE DRILLS OFF 19TH LEVEL
Siscoe Gold Mines is embarking on a large and exhaustive campaign of diamond drilling on the 19th level at a depth of 2,475 ft, The Northern Miner learned on a recent visit to the property. The main s…
THE RISE OF CORONA
The Corona Corp. of today is the Tcreation of two very different people : Murray Pezim, Canada’s best-known and most flamboyant promoter, and Ned Goodman, a financier with practically no public profi…
On The Move (December 01, 1988)
Dr Raj Singhal of the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (canmet) has been awarded a District Proficiency Medal by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Singhal, one of Canada’…
50 Years Ago EMERGENCY POWERS AN IRRITANT
The emergency powers under which U.S. President Roosevelt, if he desires, can revalue the American dollar down to 50 from its present 59.1 mark, expire June 30. The Wall Street Journal editorially d…
Core Shack ANOTHER LA RONGE PRODUCER
Located 75 miles north of La Ronge, Sask., the Rod gold deposit hosts proven and probable ore reserves of 626,928 tons grading 0.386 oz gold per ton in a quartz vein within a shear zone. The deposit, …