Inco Gold restructuring creates another company
Inco Ltd. (TSE) has made a few modifications to Inco Gold, the company’s wholly-owned gold mining and exploration arm. Inco Gold will manage Inco’s gold properties which are in production or near prod…
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Safest mines in the U.S. honored
The safest mines in the United State were honored recently with the “Sentinels of Safety” award presented by the American Mining Congress and the Department of Labor. To qualify for the award a mine m…
Vancouver Stock Exchange Alaskan project boosts Fairbanks 50^
It may not be happening in any major way in Vancouver, but brokers here are heartened by the recent upswing in trading activity on the big boards back East. However, unlike several years ago when juni…
Corona drilling Varna’s Mings Bight
Corona Corp. (TSE) has started a diamond drilling program on Varna Gold’s (ASE) Mings Bight property in Newfoundland. Drilling is testing the Lightning zone which hosts three mineralized zones in a se…
50 Years Ago COBALT WORTH MORE THAN SILVER
A delegation from Cobalt and surrounding areas seeking a bonus on silver for the Cobalt and Gowganda silver areas of Ontario has waited on the Dominion government, but the outcome has not been announc…
Letters GROUND CONTROL
Your article entitled “King of Zinc,” regarding Brunswick Mining & Smelting (see April issue), contained several errors. In the section on ground control/rock mechanics, you say the cable bolts and st…
EMVIRONMENTAL POLICY UNVEILED
The following is the new environmental policy of The Mining Association of Canada: Member companies of the mac are committed to the concept of sustainable development, which requires balancing good st…
50 Years Ago GEOLOGY FOR THE LAYMAN
We have heard comments occasionally that readers of mining news sometimes miss the significance of a report because they do not understand the implications of geological information given. Accordingly…
50 Years Ago GOLD REACHES NEW PLATEAU AS SEVERAL CURRENCIES BREAK
The expected has happened. The pound has fallen and gold has gone to a new high price in London, the world’s one great open market. The news is important, for even though the drop came co-incident wit…
What’s New DIRECTIONAL DRILLING
A new, automatic directional drilling tool has been successfully tested in Canada by Redpath Raiseboring of North Bay, Ont. The tool was developed by Bergbau- Forschung and Schwing Hydraulik Electroni…
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** CONTINUOUS PROCESSES ** Solids/liquids separation has gone through quite a change over the past decade. This mineral processing circuit was once dominated by drum or disc filters. But the vacuum fi…
50 Years Ago QUEBEC MINE BELT PROVES POPULAR
Mining in northwestern Quebec is a flourishing business. This fact is well appreciated by those engaged in the search for new metal orebodies, The Northern Miner found on a recent trip through the 100…