Shaft-sinking by hand steel has been started at the Jerome property of The Mining Corp. of Canada, in the Opeepeesway Lake area, S udbury mining division. In the third-quarter report of the company, i…
POLARIS You could say it’s about as redundant as hauling coal to Quintette or gold to Hemlo. Polaris, the world’s most northerly metal mine, requires underground refrigeration. The cooling is necessar…
Reliability, productivity and flexibility are the hallmarks of any load-haul-dump (LHD) machine worth its weight in ore. Striking an appropriate balance for the job at hand is a tough job for an equi…
The Mobrun polymetallic massive sulphide deposit, 30 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is owned 70% by Audrey Resources, the operator, and 30% by Minnova Inc. The deposit hosts reserves of 1.6 million …
In the article “Compressed Air, Naturally” in the November issue, the following was stated: “Thus was born, in 1910, the world’s first and only water-powered compressed air plant — the Ragged Chutes …
This year Dome Mines enters upon the active development of the No 6 shaft area towards the east end of the mine, after two years of letting that section lie fallow. This development will carry detaile…
High-temperature superconductors made a big splash a couple of years back because of highly publicized scientific breakthroughs. Little has been seen on the subject in the popular press of late. Never…
The Nanisivik zinc-lead deposit, on the northern end of Baffin Island, consists of massive sulphides within dolomite of the Society Cliffs Formation of Helikian age. Pyrite is the main mineral, but in…
In your Editor’s Note in the October issue, you deplored many companies’ practice of describing their ore reserves in words perhaps inspiring, but actually meaningless. I share your frustration, but n…
An immediate start will be made on the erection of a 100-ton mill at the Little Long Lac property of Mag- net Consolidated Mines, The Northern Miner is authorized to announce. The mill is to be in ope…
Assistant Editor Thom Loree wants it publicly known that his hastily Aarranged departure from Nanisivik had nothing whatever to do with the cold and the howling wind. Loree had been there visiting the…
After it is mined, ore from the Nanisivik deposit is broken up by a jaw crusher. From there, it is moved along a kilometer of conveyors to the grinding mill. In the flotation process that follows, the…
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