Articles by Northern Miner Staff

An electronic payload measurement system, which prevents underloading and over loading of off-highway trucks, has been introduced by Caterpillar (Peoria, Ill.). The unit measures truck payload through…

Thou shalt not sever or partition.” What am I talking about? Well, if two or more people have an interest in a property and they get into a dispute, the y may have available to them the legal remedy o…

Shareholders of Toronto-listed Onitap Resources will be asked to approve, at a special meeting on Feb 11, a private placement to raise working capital and the company’s agreement for exploration of it…

Production is expected to get under mid-year from the Tartan Lake joint venture between Granges Exploration and Abermin Corp. A feasibility study was recently completed by Kilborn Engineering and init…

Does a market exist in the Far North for using zeppelins to bring diamond drills into remote exploration camps? To transport heavy equipment to isolated mining properties in the Northwest Territories?…

Ore-grade gold values in 18 of 22 holes drilled on Aur Resources First Canadian property near Val d’Or, Que., boosted the company’s stock by about 13% during the week to close up 63 cents at $5.38 on…

Mining rights for Aruba are being negotiated by Monte Carlo Gold Mines. Aruba is an island in the Dutch Antilles. A petition for a 3-year lease to explore the island was accepted by the Antillian gove…

Mannesmann Demag has supplied a Demag H 241 hydraulic shovel to the Round Mountain mine in Nevada. It loads 40 trucks per hour with three cycles per truck, loading alternately from both sides. Trucks …

Pegasus Gold says that 1986 gold production “reached record levels,” and exceeded the previous high by almost 20%. According to James Foreman, president, over-all production was 92,000 oz gold and 218…

With its head office in Calgary, Fording Coal employs about 1,300 personnel in Alberta and British Columbia. Established in 1968 to devel op coal re serves in the Fording River Valley, the company bec…

Vancouver-based Seadrift International Exploration has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Macanda Mine Exploration, a private Ontario company, from its three shareh…

Good trading in shares of Naneco Resources added more than 30 cents to the issue, which was up to $2. Naneco expects to make a production decision this year on the Johnson Gulch project in South Dakot…