Suppliers’ Notes INGERSOLL-RAND CANADA
Ingersoll-Rand Canada of Montreal, Que., has appointed Wajax Industries as its authorized distributor for underground drilling equipment throughout Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
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ON THE MOVE DRESSER CONSTRUCTION & MINING EQUIPMENT
Dresser Construction & Mining Equipment’s new vice-president, marketing, for mining machinery products is William Graessle. He will be responsible for product management, field sales and market suppor…
CROSS CUTS An Outsider’s View
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Programmable Controllers
A new generation of programmable controllers has been introduced by Asea Inc. of Saint-Laurent, Que. The MasterPiece 100 family of controllers includes adaptive and pid controllers; logic control; seq…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Beefed Up Excavator
Caterpillar has beefed up its Cat 225 hydraulic excavator. Using a direct- injection Cat 3208 diesel engine rated at 108 kW, engine power has been increased 7%. The additions of a 3.9-tonne counterwei…
Suppliers’ Notes AUTOCLAVE ENGINEERS
Pennsylvania-based Autoclave Engineers is to become the exclusive North American distributor of Maximator hydraulic pumps and gas compressors. Maximator products are used in the mining and petrochemic…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– GRANBY RUSHES PREPARATIONS FOR RE-
In view of the improved market for copper, preparations are being hastened for the resumption of operations at the Granby Consolidated M.S. & P. Co.’s Copper Mountain mine and 2,500-ton concentrator a…
WHAT’S NEW The tools of Automation Tough Computer Terminals
Bromac Industrial Controls (Downsview, Ont.) has begun marketing computer terminals designed and manufactured by Gamma Products. Sealed in a non-ventilated cast aluminum case, these terminals can be h…
Suppliers’ Notes COOPER INDUSTRIES (January 02, 1987)
Dravo Wellman Co. is to act as the exclusive sales and service representative for New Jersey-based MKT Geotechnical Systems’ Mead-Morrison spare parts business. Pittsburgh-based Dravo Wellman, a divis…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY 1937– SIGMA MILL READY IN APRIL
Under normal conditions Sigma Mines’ new big gold mill should be completed in early April when it will swing into production at a rate of 300 tons daily, The Northern Miner can say after visiting the …
Down the Drain
Back in July, 1985, the Alberta Oil Sands Technology Research Authority (aostra) invited tenders to design and manufacture an underground drill rig to test a proposed method of recovering bitumen from…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– SHAFT-SINKING NOW AT STANLEY
Stanley Gold Mines, just south of Wawa Lake in the Michipicoten area, had a program of shaft-sinking to open up three new levels nicely under way when The Northern Miner visited the property. … Drif…