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Harry Oakes, staker and original president of Lake Shore Mines, Limited, and pioneer engineer-prospector of the Kirkland Lake district, added another distinction to his already long list when he was c…

The sending of British capital into Canadian mining and other enterprises is being affected by the suggestion of British authorities that Old Country brokers and bankers should not assist in the expo…

Mine operators at Inco’s copper/nickel mine in Thompson, Man., have a talent for innovation in more than one field. Even etymology is within their sphere of expertise, having invented a word of their …

The article in the March, 1989, issue on the Caribou mine of New Brunswick, gives a wrong impression on the discovery of the Caribou deposit. It says: “Cavalero, an American geologist from Maine, was…

As Canada’s miners tackle narrower vein deposits, they’ll need locomotives to haul the ore to the shaft in the mines that opt for track mining. But while locomotives have been around a long time, few …

All uranium-bearing minerals contain radium, the radioactive product of uranium decay. Radium itself decays and gives off the chemically inert, radioactive gas radon. Radon can percolate out of rocks …

Wth the help of a computer graphic technique called “solid modeling,” mining engineers now can combine the accuracy of drill sections and plans with the visual effect of Plexiglas models to produce a …

Uranium mining has a distinct set Uof problems. In fact, its very disUtinctiveness has led Saskatchewan’s mine-operators to adopt a public relations drive. But first, the question of high grade. For …

George Peebles has a mining assignment that ambitious uranium miners would give their eye teeth for. Cigar Lake is the pre-eminent technical challenge in uranium mining today. The deposit is highly ra…

The Key Lake mine, on the south eastern rim of the Athabasca Sandstone Basin in northern Saskatchewan, has been producing uranium since 1983. The first of two high grade open pits has been exhausted b…

Not all underground mine vehicles are directly involved in bringing muck to surface. Auxiliary equipment is needed by all mines to move miners from place to place, to handle heavy materials and for a …

Out of a total workforce of about 412 (including salaried employees on staff), the fact that Key Lake’s maintenance department employs 154 workers says something about the operation’s priorities. “May…