BIG IS BEAUTIFUL
Gold miners in the nation’s biggest gold camp might be mining some pretty lean ore over the next 2-3 years. Instead of mining ore that averages no less than 0.065 oz gold per ton, as they do today, mi…
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CORE SHACK Epigenetic gold in Val D’Or
The Kierens Zone is an epigenetic gold deposit on Aur Resources’ First Canadian property, 10 miles west of Val d’Or, Que. Based on surface drilling results, the deposit is estimated to contain drill-i…
ORE HORIZONS The Metalore gold discovery What stalled development?
The gold discovery by Metalore Resources not only sparked a staking rush into the Beardmore area of Ontario, but a stock market play as well. Announced by The Northern Miner in March, 1986, the news o…
50 YEARS AGO JULY, 1937 DUPORT ESTIMATES LARGE TONNAGE
Underground development and diamond drilling at the property of Duport Mining Co., at Shoal Lake, northwestern Ontario, has resulted in the establishment of substantial ore lengths at the third and fo…
CROSS-CUTS Electrical breakthrough
In April, The Northern Miner Magazine featured a story on Inco’s Crean Hill mine in Sudbury, a shut- down nickel producer transformed by modern technology into a state-of-the-art, all-electric operati…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES (July 01, 1987)
SEW-Eurodrive Co. of Canada, based in Bramalea, Ont., has opened its third Canadian plant, in Lasalle, Que. The new facility offers the Quebec mining industry its choice of more than two million diffe…
COMPUTERS Software by CanTung
The world’s largest producer of tungsten ore, Canada Tungsten Mining Corp., has turned out a software program, as yet unnamed, to help run its worldwide operations and affiliates. CanTung is part of t…
LETTERS B.C. supports mining industry
Your recent article “Where to Explore” (March issue) claimed that British Columbia was among the least supportive of the provinces when it comes to assisting mineral development. Nothing could be fart…
ARTIFICIAL OPERATORS
The potential of artificial intelligence for assisting mill operators is believed to be awesome. By Patrick Whiteway Artificial intelligence (AI) has been compared to a porpoise stranded on a beach -…
HORIZONS The Metalore gold discovery
Metalore Resources’ Gold Discovery, formerly known as the Brookbank occurrence, is in northern Ontario on an all-weather road about eight miles northeast of the town of Beardmore. Mineralization occur…
CROSS-CUTS The royal shaft
Investors around the world have been renewing their love affair with gold during the past year, and Canadian gold stocks have all been performing exceptionally well as a result. In fact the market val…
THIRD TIME LUCKY
For a project that was viewed as a modest underground producer three years ago, Mascot Gold Mines’ Nickel Plate mine has certainly come a long way. Perched high above the town of Hedley in southeaster…