Work completed at Springer bet
A program of prospecting, soil sampling and diamond drilling of five holes has been completed by 50/50 partners Springer Resources (VSE) and Noranda (TSE) on their Glenwood project in Newfoundland. Th…
News
600 gather as Hall of Fame inducts 9 mining legends
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame awards ceremony, the industry’s annual tribute to its most distinguished citizens, just keeps on getting bigger. At the recent third annual dinner function at Toronto’…
EDITORIAL PAGE GST is an improvement
Nobody likes to be taxed, and additional taxation is impossible to justify as long as government spending remains out of control. Nevertheless, the public outcry that arose when Ottawa’s new goods and…
The Science of Discovery
This issue of The Northern Miner Magazine marks the first step in our sixth year of existence. As soon as you turn the pages, you’ll see a difference in content (though not in style). For example, thi…
Calendar (January 01, 1991)
Feb 3-7, Las Vegas, Nev. 17th Annual Conference on Explosives & Blasting Techniques and 7th Annual Symposium on Explosives & Blasting Research. At Caesar’s Palace. Contact Society of Explosives Engine…
Mining Week in God’s Country
The Mining Association of British Columbia is gearing up for Mining Week 1991. The celebrations will be held during the last week of February. Three days of events in Vancouver’s Pan Pacific Hotel wil…
On the Move (January 01, 1991)
William Stanley, a regular contributor to this magazine’s Managing column, has been appointed president-elect of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Stanley is a partner with the Coopers …
Fifty Years Ago
MANPOWER POLICY NEEDED This country does not seem able to develop a manpower or war-making policy of its own. It waits on England. It has waited until England began pulling men out of the armed forces…
Mineral Hunt
The Mining and Mineralogical Museum of the Quebec Asbestos Region is seeking donations of minerals from all parts of the globe. Donations will be used for either display, educational or research purpo…
See You There: The 59th PDAC Convention
Although Canadian mineral exploration has been in the doldrums since the bottom fell out of the spending boom in 1988, members of the mining fraternity can at least look forward to their annual party….
Prepare or Beware: The Environmental Audit
n this year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, 1984 may have truly arrived. Big Brother administers to the resources industry through environmental legislation and bureaucracy. In m…
Same-Day Service at Kienna Gold
It used to eat up a lot of time to lower Kiena Gold mine’s bigger load-haul-dump machines to the workings below. The 28-ton LHDs were dismantled on surface and lowered in pieces down the shaft. Extens…