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 …
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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…
A FLAT MARKET
Silver, traditionally the poor Sman’s gold, hasn’t made any investors– well-heeled or impoverished — any money over the past couple of years at least. And, according to forecasts by Shearson Lehman …
Zinc SOFT LANDING
Zinc market conditions are extremely tight. The sharp slowdown in the auto sector combined with less buoyant consumer spending overall will act to decrease zinc demand sharply * The new mines coming o…
Digital Prospecting
I was pleased to see the article entitled “Digital Prospecting” in the June issue, for despite its value, the technology may not yet be well known within the geological community. Unfortunately, altho…
IMPM conference papers in new book
Some 50 papers presented at the 13th annual International Precious Metals Institute conference have been compiled into a book, now available from the institute. It is edited by Dr Bryn Harris of the N…
People (October 30, 1989)
COEUR d’ALENE MINES — Michael C. Tippet appointed exploration manager.
Geoscience forum set for Whitehorse
The 17th annual Yukon geoscience forum will be held in Whitehorse at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel and the Yukon Theatre Nov 26-29, followed by a seminar on cyanide and heap leaching. Technical papers…