Articles by Northern Miner Staff

How dangerous are those tires used in some mining industry equipment? Rimex Supply of Surrey, B.C., a wheel manufacturer and distributor, has made a video about safety procedures for handling tires. R…

The world’s smallest 4-wheel drive diesel-powered scoop has been developed by John Clark Inc. of Denver, Colo. Called the jci 50m, it has a 1/2-cu- yd bucket and weighs 6,000 lb. It was designed to b…

The Montauban and Grand Calumet deposits are geologically similar lead-zinc-gold- silver deposits occurring in the Grenville Province. The lithological, mineralogical and economic similarities are str…

Though the three new Macassa levels below 3,000 ft are far from being fully developed, there is now little doubt that each of them will be at least the equal of the 3,000-ft level that surpassed any h…

The Outokumpu Equipment division of Outokumpu Oy of Finland has purchased the Sweden- based Wenmec Systems AB, manufacturer of material- handling systems for the non-ferrous refining industry. The di…

Geotech Ltd. of Markham, Ont., has acquired the name and assets of McPhar Geophysics. The purchase brings a line of ground geophysical instruments to compliment Geotech’s established airborne electrom…

Estimates of Canada’s uranium resources have increased significantly over the past two years, according to Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. New discoveries more than make up for the 25,300 tons of …

Rauma-Repola, one of the largest public companies in Finland, has agreed to purchase the European operations related to the design, manufacture and marketing of crushing equipment of Milwaukee, Wis.-b…

Williams & Wilson of Scarborough, Ont., which has been manufacturing furnaces for nearly 50 years, has made a number of technical improvements to its assay furnaces. The company’s latest furnaces are …

Canadian Scale of Sudbury, Ont. is marketing a new electronic device that measures the amount of material on a conveyor belt with an accuracy of 95% to 98%. Called Kilo-wate, the unit measures the ele…

Norgraphics-Pandick, Canada’s leading international financial printer, has announced that its U.S. partner, Pandick Inc., of New York, the world’s largest financial printer, has signed a joint-ventur…

A new high-chrome iron centrifugal process pump for moving abrasive slurries has been introduced by Allis- Chalmers of Milwaukee, Wis. Called the 1,200 Series pump, it requires about 50% less time to …