DON’T JUST SIT THERE
Today, most people share a peculiar “either/or” attitude toward environmental protection; people can be concerned about either the rights of business or protecting the natural environment. Consequentl…
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OLD MINE DUMPS NEVER DIE…
Recycling is nothging new to mining. For some time, opportunists have turned to old mine dumps and tailings for new sources of ore. Abandoned mines are often rejunenated for another go-round at profit…
SHEDDING LIGHT ON SILVER
While the future of the automobile may be clouded (the ubiquitous family auto may yet be fingered as the No. 1 air polluter), it apparently is gaining a silver lining. Actually, car and van windshield…
WESTRAY: CURRAGH’S COAL MINE
Jerry Bell is a mechanical engineer who, for the past 16 years, has worked on the construction of coal-fired electric generating plants in Canada. Today he’s in charge of another such project, in Tren…
ENTREPRENEURIAL UPSTART; BLM’s Risto Laamanen
The mine engineering consulting Tand contracting establishment Tin Canada was built around the strong entrepreneurial, pioneering spirit of several mining men. That spirit was characterized by a willi…
CURBING BLAST DAMAGE
Intuition, rather than hard facts, more often guides mine operators in predicting the adverse effects blasts will have on mine excavations. But predicting blast-induced damage is slowly coming into it…
HUGE HAULERS
What moves on all fours, stands Wso tall that even basketball Wplayers can walk under it, and sports a pea-sized brain (relative to its mass, of course)? Well, certain types of dinosaur would have qua…
CALENDAR (June 01, 1990)
July 2-6, Edinburgh, Scotland. 14th Congress of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions. Organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Contact Secretary, Institution of Mining an…
THE NORTHERN MINER; JUNE 1940
U.S. NAVY NEEDS MORE ARMOR PLATE The largest awards on record for one time have been made by the U.S. Navy Department involving 22 ships to cost some $327 million. They include two 45,000-ton cruisers…
THE BLUENOSE PROJECT
Nova Scotia started down the path of energy self-sufficiency through coal many years ago and it appears the path also leads to the U.S. export market. The Nova Scotia Power Corp. has conceived a plan,…
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
I was shocked by the first paragraph of your editorial (“Blessing or Curse?”) in the October, 1989, issue. To read these comments in a newspaper is understandable, but in an otherwise good mining trad…
METALLURGICAL GRAB-BAG
Bacteria Cellulose A chemical has been created using an advanced biotechnological process involving a strain of bacteria that produces cellulose. The resulting product, called Cellulon, has properties…