1987

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…



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…


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…


EDITOR’S NOTE More than gold

To the east and to the west, gold is revitalizing a moribund Canadian mining industry. In Nova Scotia earlier this year, Seabright Resources produced a gold bar from development muck at its Forest Hil…



LAW Fees and negligence

Most agreements that contemplate a party acting as an operator to carry out exploration or other mining work financed by several parties permit the operator to charge against the project some of the o…


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