Law AREAS OF INTEREST
When a joint venture is established, a fiduciary relationship is created among the parties to the joint venture (remember the court case between lac Minerals and Corona Corp. over the Page/ Williams m…
News
Letters IS THIOUREA DEADLY?
In the second paragraph of Norm Avery’s article, “The Thiourea Option” (May, 1989, issue), he states in reference to thiourea, “it is not carcinogenic in man * * .” I am seeking the basis for this rat…
Old-timers
I was interested by your open query in the August, 1989, issue, as to the longest-operating mine in the world, because I have worked at the Dome mine in northern Ontario and also at two mines in Europ…
What’s New Hardrock Shovel
A diesel-powered, heavyweight hydraulic mining excavator, with a 11.5-cu-m bucket, has been introduced by Harnischfeger of Milwaukee, Wis. The Model 1550 shovel comes equipped with a Cummins KTTA 38 C…
lead ON THE WAY DOWN
Lead prices have been trending upward since 1985 and currently stand at 42 cents (us) per lb. We expect slumping automobile sales and new mine production to bring them back down to 38 cents (us) per …
osscuts PLATINUM
Dr Harry Warren, a pioneer biogeochemist and honorary professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia, has discovered that bee pollen laced with naturally-occu…
osscuts FORESIGHT PAYS OFF
Hindsight, as they say, is always perfect. But a pleasing view from that perspective requires prior foresight. As, for example, the foresight displayed by Les Mines Selbaie in 1984, when in the midst …
Letters An Acquittal
Re: “The Thiourea Option” and the letter written by D. W. Krueger. I assume that I am the basis for the statement that thiourea is not carcinogenic in man since I did discuss this with the writer of t…
Nickel NOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS
After eight years of nearly continuous worldwide expansion of nickel demand, many analysts seem to assume that the cyclic nature of the nickel industry is a phenomenon of the past. If we examine the g…
ANNUAL METALS REVIEW Copper RED METAL EXEMPLIFIES TREND
Fluctuations in supply, demand and inventories have resultedin a period of som e uncertainty for copper and other metals. By Raymond Goldie and Rob Maiman Last year, while visiting New Zealand, a min…
ASSAY TECHNOLOGY
It’s hard to say exactly when it Istarted, but some time last year Imajor assaying labs across the country began receiving increased amounts of more soil, grab, trench, channel and bulk samples from b…
JOB ROTATIONS
When Rio Algom started the mine, it had to train the vast majority of its operators. “We had only two shovel operators, one driller and one blaster,” mine superintendent Gary Smith recalls. Since this…