THE SUDBURY BASIN: Back to the classroom
Paul Parker was faced with an alarming prospect. The vice-president for human resources and administration at Inco’s Ontario Division realized his firm was poised at a historic and disagreeable waters…
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Construction Equipment
The long hours and hot weather of summer are the ultimate tes equipment. Maintenance managers with the best springtime preparation stand the greatest chance of making it through the summer season with…
FOLLOWING THE FAULT: The gold mines of northeastern Ontario and
AMERICAN BARRICK When American Barrick’s Holt-McDermott mine came into the public eye in the late 1980s, the reserve was estimated at about 3.3 million tons grading nearly 0.19 oz. gold per ton (three…
Kennecott’s gravy train
The first year of mining the open-pit Ridgeway deposits in So Carolina was, to borrow a term employed by Engineering Manager Peter Evans, “gravy.” The soft oxides allowed blasthole spacings of 20 ft. …
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…
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…