Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Robbins Manufacturing has introduced a new 50,000-lb pulldown blasthole drill capable of drilling 9-in diameter holes. The unit features a Caterpillar 3406 engine rated at 402 hp, a 950-cu-ft- per-min…

Old gold mines never die, they just get taken over by ambitious junior exploration companies with fresh insights into the old operation’s hidden ore reserves. At least that’s how it looks after VSE-li…

Sluggish growth is forecast this year for the American insulated wire and cable industry by Business Trend Analysts, Inc., a business research and publishing firm. In a report titled The U.S. Insulate…

To simplify its operations Ranger Helicopters, Canada will henceforth be operating only one licensed helicopter comp any and winding down its other three licensed companies. The continuing company w…

You can learn a lot about a mining operation by listening to employee discussions in company lunchrooms. In most cases the conversation is fairly predictable: complaints about co- workers, equipment p…

In addition to a previously announced flow-through financing of $540,000, Sunmist Energy has secured $600,000, at 65 cents per share, from First Exploration Fund l987 and Co. The amount will be spent…

Joint-venture partners Quebec Explorers and Cogesco Mining Resources spent more than $1.3 million on a recent drilling program to explore the Dubuisson Twp. property in northwestern Quebec. The 6-mont…

Economic Minerals of Saskatchewan, the proceedings of a symposium held in Regina late last year, is now available for purchase from the Saskatchewan Geological Society, at Box 234, Regina S4P2Z6. Soft…

Maclean Engineering & Marketing of Collingwood, Ont., is marketing a line of jacklegs and stopers which it considers to be a good alternative to the hand-held drills that are now in wide use in the Ca…

Bradley Bros. of Noranda, Que., has developed a pollution control system that it says satisfies every environmental regulation concerning pollution control in all Canadian provinces. Developed for two…

Atlas Copco Canada of Montreal has brought its aut omated drilling jumbo to the Canadian market. Called the Robot Boomer H135, the rig features two but 35 booms for drilling mine openings which have c…

Two events last week, one coinciding in time with the other, brought a considerable degree of encouragement to Canada’s beleaguered mining industry. One was the unveiling, in Ottawa, of a new federa…