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For the past several years northwestern British Columbia has experienced an exploration boom, and although it’s still early in the game, three gold camps have already been carved out of this rugged an…

The majority of the gold mines that have been discovered along the 60 to 70 miles betweeen Noranda and Val d’Or, Que., are located close to, or within a few miles north of, the major break known as th…

While the demand for lead continues to be firm, the market should remain well supplied with prices on the defensive for the rest of this year, international investment firm Shearson Lehman Hutton writ…

Since 1980, the frequency of accidents at Rio Algom’s Panel mine in Elliot Lake, Ont., has decreased significantly. I attribute that record in large part to the Loss Control System, which we institute…

Final approval has been given for the merger of Total Erickson Resources (TSE) with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total Energold Corp., formerly Getty Resources. Under the court-approved arrangement, T…

“A Rockburst Primer” by Dr. David Hedley, which appeared in your July issue, brought back memories. In 1937 or 1938, I was working in a large, flat-back stope in the Lake Shore mine in Kirkland Lake, …

As Robert Service said, there are indeed “strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.” But even he would be hard pressed to find anything more unlikely than a heap leach oper…

NEWMONT MINING CORP — Richard B. Leather elected vice- chairman.

“Why,” asks a thoughtful subscriber, “do not Canadian banks employ mining engineers?” Why not, indeed? Perhaps some of them do, although the fact is not publicized. However, employment of experts in m…

Once known as John F. Kennedy’s campaign song, the words of that popular tune from the 1960s mirrors the hopeful expectations of every mining company. Armed with a positive feasibility study, more tha…

Paymaster Consolidated is crosscutting through high-grade ore in the new No. 24 vein on the 2,075-ft. level at the No. 3 winze, The Northern Miner can announce. At presstime, the west wall of the cros…

When the zinc famine was on in the U.S. in 1937, resulting in the importation of 45,000 tons, the discovery was made that any preconceived ideas about the amount of the metal in undisclosed inventorie…