Wet milling; Treating asbestos tailings
Minimizing a worker’s exposure to asbestos fibre is a top pri for operators of mills that treat asbestos ore. Current Canadian regulations permit two fibres of asbestos per millilitre of air, while ot…
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Corporate Downsizing
In recent times, downsizing has become an intrinsic managemen strategy as organizations strive to optimize opportunities and conserve limited resouuces in the 1990s — a decade that will be characteri…
Wall to wall stability
Monitoring rock slopes is essential to the success of most op mines. Slopes may become unstable during blasting, during spring thaw or because of geological factors such as an undetected layer of kaol…
Suppliers’ Notes (October 04, 1990)
Intera Information Technologogs Corp. of Calgary, Alta. is acquiring certain assets of the Aero Service division of Western Atlas International, a unit of Dresser Industries and Litton Industries. Int…
Still Gilded
The Golden Highway is still gilded. Plenty of mines are produ along this dual stretch of asphalt that runs from Timmins and Kirkland Lake, Ont., to Val d’Or, Que. Two major faults — Porcupine-Destor …
On the move (October 04, 1990)
In his new position of executive vice-president of Dayco Products, Bruce McNeil will have direct responsibility for all sales and marketing functions. He joined the company in 1977 from the accounting…
Scooptram of the ’90s
Wagner Mining Equipment, a division of the Swedish firm Atlas Copco, recently announced the launch of the first in a series of mining vehicles. The company has dubbed the series “the pace-setters” and…
Joint-venture disputes
Proving approval, or the lack thereof, by a joint-venture committee can result in the opening of a can of worms. As the venturers are in a dispute, it goes without saying that they cannot agree upon w…
50 Years ago – October, 1940
MICA IMPORTANT AS WAR MINERAL Mica has been classed as an essential war mineral by the United States authorities responsible for the provision of adequate supplies of such materials. It is one of two …
Cross-Cuts (October 04, 1990)
A BRISK TRIP The trend to commuter mines in the north — Echo Bay’s Lupin and Placer Dome’s Detour Lake mines being key instances — will likely continue. In the Yukon, for example, mine workers for t…
THE SUDBURY BASIN: On track at Lindsey
Falconbridge Ltd.’s Thayer Lindsley (or T.L.) project, an exploration play on a deep-seated nickel/copper orebody a few kilometres outside of Sudbury, Ont., now has a shaft sunk to the 1,310-metre lev…
EDITORIAL PAGE Say too much of say too little
Eyeball assays. It is not our term, but it is one that has apparently taken hold in the exploration field. Or perhaps we should say in the promotion field. It is an apt expression. Essentially, it ref…