Association for Minnesota mining
The newly established Minnesota Exploration Association hope to provide companies and individuals exploring for non-ferrous minerals in Minnesota with a cohesive means to share information and to give…
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ABM, Goldenbell unite, Jamestown improving
Toronto-based Northgate Exploration (TSE) has begun to simplify its broad portfolio of mining companies by uniting the assets of affiliates ABM Gold Corp. and Goldenbell Resources (TSE). By purchasing…
Editorial Money is no object
It must be nice to say “money is no object.” Just ask Ontario Hydro. The provincial government agency has recently announced its plans to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions as required by the Ontario …
Nevada Goldfields, Minerex discussing rationalization (February 06, 1989)
Discussions have taken place between Nevada Goldfields Corp. (NASDAQ) and Minerex Resources (TSE) about a possible rationalization of their mining operations near Hawthorne, Nev. While emphasizing the…
GEOLOGY OF THE NANISIVIK DEPOSIT
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…
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…
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 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…
Editor’s Note GETTING THE STORY
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…
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 MAGNET BUILDS MILL
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…
LETTERS COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE A Perennial Problem
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…
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1939 SHAFT WORK AT JEROME
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…