Rochester deals South Mercur
Several months after acquiring the South Mercur gold property from Dominion Mining and Ennex International, Rochester Minerals (VSE) has negotiated an agreement with Kennecott Corp. The deal gives Ken…
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Seven Mile High rejects Hamelin offer
Shareholders of Seven Mile High Group (VSE) rejected an unusual offer by former president Maurice Hamelin to drop his $1.3 million lawsuit against the company on the condition they elect a board of di…
Zone 97 drilling excites VSM, Serem
Two drills are working at zone 97 of the Grevet zinc project southeast of Matagami, Que., where VSM Exploration and its project partner, French-controlled Serem Quebec, are hoping to add significantly…
Internal responsibility
If you have been rubbing elbows recently with your counterparts in the mining industry, you may have heard the buzz term “IRS” being bandied about. No, they haven’t run afoul of the U.S. Internal Reve…
Automated Equipment
Automatic Lubricators A new system of single-point automatic lubricators may help mine operators save money. Perma Distributors describes its product as less costly than central automatic lubrication …
Metals in review
Metals prices have had a pretty good run since the end of the recession. Nickel, for example, touching the US$10.80 mark. Copper edging US$1.69 per lb. But what now? The 1982-83 recession isn’t distan…
Cross-cuts
DOOM AND GLOOM FOR MANY PRECIOUS METALS Apart from gold, not all is well with precious metals. And a good argument can be made that silver, platinum and palladium should continue to disappoint. The re…
Old mines never die…they become garbage dumps
Canadian mining communities have for years pondered, with considerable dread, what would happen when the motherlode runs dry. But the ascendancy of environmental protection as the political issue of t…
On the move (November 02, 1990)
Ralph Denholm has been appointed to the position of service manager for Nordberg Machinery in Guelph, Ont. Denholm has been with Nordberg since 1969, most rcently as materials manager. This newly crea…
Letters (November 02, 1990)
Duport Your article “The Refractory Riddle” was excellent, but contained some omissions: You did not mention that the Duport autoclave and cyanide leach plant would be located on the mainland, outside…
Mining goes metropolitan
It is a rare sight — a 2-boom jumbo, longhole drills, and a tube-shaped electromagnetic device brightly clad in yellow sitting there at street level in downtown Toronto, dwarfed by a 50-storey office…
Gaining control
The trend to high-technology monitoring and control in minera processing has been heating up over the past few years. In fact, in a recent Statistics Canada survey, nearly 250 mines said they had adop…