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…
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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…
Anglo Canadian raises $400,000 for Timmins bet
lDynamic Capital has agreed to provide Anglo Canadian Mining (TSE) with $250,000 to finance the first stage of exploration on the MWF gold prospect in Matheson Twp. near Timmins, Ont. Anglo has also r…
Papers on acid drainage invited
Acidic mine drainage is the largest single environmental problem facing the industry today. In Ontario and Quebec alone, there are 40 abandoned mine sites classified as hazardous waste sites because o…
U.S.REPRT Pacific Sentinel options Arizona gold prospect
An aggressive drill program is being planned by Pacific Sentinel Gold (VSE) for a recently optioned bulk tonnage, potential heap leach gold property in La Paz Cty., Ariz. Pacific Sentinel can acquire …
Falling aluminum hits Amax income
A 40% drop in the price of primary aluminum from early 1989 levels was responsible for a decrease in the first-quarter income reported by New York-based Amax (TSE), according to Chairman Allen Born. A…