The continued efforts of the Hon. Onesime Gagnon, Quebec minister of mines and fisheries, toward the development of the Gaspe peninsula will again bear fruit this summer. He was recently advised by th…
The continued health of Canadian mining Faced with a struggle to survive, Fthe mining industry in Canada Fhas made tremendous strides in the past six years. In some firms, productivity has doubled in …
At these prices, it’s a steal. We’re talking about solid gold frying pans. “Pure unalderated gold would make a superb frying pan because it diffuses heat more evenly than iron or copper. Being chemica…
If the existing rate of gold output is maintained for the last six months of 1939, Canada’s gold production should pass the 5-million- oz mark for the year, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. …
I wish to comment on Kerry Knoll’s review of several largely unsuccessful new mines, as published in your June, 1989, issue (see “And Now the Bad News”). I have had no professional association with an…
In the June, 1989, issue we featured two articles which dealt, in varying degrees, with reserve estimation for mineral deposits. (See Three Solitudes by Norman Champigny and And Now the Bad News by Ke…
It isn’t always easy distinguishing between government-planned northern development in Canada and the fruits of mining in those areas. Many believe the mining industry has, for all intents and purpose…
Four heap leachers are establishing themselves in the northern Black Hills area of South Dakota. Wharf Resources, with its Annie Creek and Foley Ridge pits, is the elder statesman. The others — MinVe…
Premium-grade lube and hydraulic oils are the life blood of of most mining and milling machinery. To be reliable, a machine must operate on clean oil. For this to be possible, operators must either c…
Often the things I write about Oare the very things I’m strugOgling with. This article is a particularly tough one. As I consider what has been termed the “mid-life crisis” and the implications of ea…
The ingenious and complex chain of companies that De Beers has set up to market diamonds worldwide has been called the most successful cartel of the century. The Central Selling Organization (cso) was…
A mechanically attached wear protection system called Kwick-Lok has been introduced by esco of Port Hope, Ont. It is designed to reduce abrasion in fel buckets, shovel dippers, chute liners, face shov…
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