The mining industry in Ontario continues to demonstrate its leadership in the area of environmental protection, the Ontario Mining Association (OMA) says. While providing the products demanded by soci…
Although Placer Dome (TSE) recently made two major North American acquisitions that promise to greatly increase its future gold production — the Mount Milligan property and a 45% interest in Stikine …
It wasn’t the best of years in 1990 for metals prices, but it wasn’t the worst, either. After the heady times of the late 1980s, precious and base metals began feeling the effects of a softening econo…
David Nicholls is a geologist in the mines technology department for the Manitoba division of Inco Ltd. His immediate responsibility is to provide computer support to the exploration group, including …
The metal-mining industry will soon establish an International Council on Metals and the Environment, a global response to mounting pressures for better health and environmental protection. “This is t…
Randolph Diamond (1891-1978) Metallurgist who created the world’s first successful large-scale differential flotation operation, which unlocked the zine-lead treasures of B.C’s Sullivan Mine. John Ham…
“The role of new firms in innovation is important not only for its direct contribution but for its implicit threat to older firms, which might not otherwise feel impelled to take the risks of innovati…
To gain an insight into current maintenance practices and procedures at operating mines, The Northern Miner Magazine recently conducted a maintenance survey of 30 medium-sized underground operations. …
Environmentalism, weak equity markets, an economic downturn, global competiton and a desert war. No question, Canadian mining faces obstacles. The following, a response to our questionnaire on the pag…
The article “the refractory Riddle,” in your August, 1990 issue, was a very comprehensive compilation of information on the subject of recovering gold from arsenopyrite . . . Or was it? One point not …
It’s a good bet armchair critics this year will scrutinize Placer Dome’s Mt. Milligan project, north of Prince George, B.C. It is the country’s biggest potential gold/copper producer, ranking in size …
It has become fashionable to blame the flow-through tax rules for the excesses that led to the mine development failures of the 1980s. But this is not entirely fair. My colleagues and I were in the un…
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