NANISIVIK MINE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD
In 1910-11, when the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Arctic wintered on the remote, northwestern coast of Baffin Island, a prospector on board reported, for the first time, the presence of silver, lead an…
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POLAR PRODUCERS NECRO-CON
The acquisition by Nerco Minerals of Cominco’s Con gold mine at Yellowknife, N.W.T., two years ago first exposed Nerco to underground mining. Until that time, Nerco was primarily an open-pit silver pr…
POLAR PRODUCERS FARO
Roads do indeed lead to resources. The lead/zinc mine in the Pelly River region of central Yukon illustrates this point beautifully. Were it not for the all-weather road there, the 58-million-tonne Fa…
LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE Stressmeter
An article entitled “Breakthrough in Measuring Stress” appeared in your October issue on Page 71. The article gave the impression that the breakthrough device mentioned was arrived at after combining …
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 SUBSIDIZE PROSPECTORS? NO WAY
In British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, proposals (more or less offical) have been made in connection with aiding the prospector and the mining industry. In the coast province, Mayor Telford o…
PUSH BACK THE FRONTIER
Since base metals deposits in southern Canada are being mined at such great depths today, exploration geologists are being forced to rethink the meaning of the word “remote.” Base metals deposits disc…
SHIPPING CONCENTRATES
Nanisivik is accessible by ice-strengthened ships from August through mid-October. Shiploads of supplies from Montreal arrive each summer to replace dwindling inventories. An ice-breaking bulk cargo s…
POLAR PRODUCERS LUPIN
Despite a barren location (90 km south of the Arctic Circle, where there are no roads or navigable waterways) and an inhospitably cold climate, Echo Bay’s Lupin mine has produced more than 910,000 oz …
LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE Stress and Strain
Re: October, 1988, page 71 article entitled “Breakthrough in Measuring Stress.” We appreciate that we have the opportunity to elaborate on the new CANMET strain/stress monitoring device by responding …
THE NANISIVIK POWER PLANT
Perhaps the most important instalPlation to the town of Nanisivik is the electrical generating station, within the main industrial building. All power requirements at Nanisivik are dependent on this p…
MINING NORTH OF 60
When the Pine Point lead/zinc mine closed last year, the event marked not just the death of a huge pro- ducer, but the end of a true technical pioneer in Canada’s North. The 33 individual Pine Point o…
Research FLYING HIGH
Isolated “fly-in” mines are not the big contributors to the wealth of the north that conventional wisdom assumes. In fact, according to two researchers at Memorial University in Newfoundland, employme…