Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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…

With 300 men now engaged, and 50 or 60 more to be added, the Sherritt Gordon mine again becomes an important factor in the mining industry of the country. This property, out of production for five yea…

Denison Mines of Toronto has found itself in a happy situation thanks to some new technology. An efficient extraction method called solvent extraction and a revolution in solid-state physics could boo…

A peace-time invasion of Canada by Oriental capital in quest of metals for industrial purposes is in actual progress, evidence received this week from Vancouver by The Northern Miner reveals. Active s…

The Malartic boom in Quebec, long heralded, is now a fact. Essentially a medium-grade, large-tonnage district, Malartic was discovered, on a recent tour, to have three east-west ore breaks that appear…

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…

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…

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…

Maintenance workers are among mining’s most talented employees. They are highly adaptable and can improvise quickly. They ply their trade everywhere there is a plant and equipment — from the smallest…

A broadening of operations at Paymaster Consolidated Mines is suggested by preparations for deepening the No. 5 shaft. Preliminary work is expected to be finished by the first of next month and anothe…

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…

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 -…