Muckling and hauling a continuous process
The earth-moving technology Tthat makes open pit and underTground coal, salt and potash mining so affordable is making its way into underground hardrock mines. Significant advances have been made in r…
News
50 Years Ago CURRENCY PROBLEMS FOR GOLD MINES
Unless there is war, which now looks remote, the premium in United States funds may shortly diminish, leaving us little gain from a fall in sterling which looks likely to settle the pound quotation at…
Law MORE ON DEFAULTS
In the last instalment on the subject of defaults (see May issue), we left the villain having defaulted under option arrangements and considering the potential of defaulting under farm-in/joint-ventur…
COMPUTER PROCESS CONTROL Part 1
There is a wide distribution in the Tdegree to which process control Tis applied in North American gold mills. We believe that the distribution is decidedly skewed toward pre dominantly manual contro…
FORMIDABLE EXPERTISE
More than 700 people in and around the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island make their living in Strathcona Provincial Park, some earning more than $80,000 per year. These people aren’t raking l…
Managing STRESS TAKES A HOLIDAY
We have all recently been exposed to a jingle on television that asserts “I need a vacation, gotta get away. * * .” We can even relate to it, but what have we done about it? I was part of a discussion…
Editor’s Note CLEANING UP
Treating the natural environment as an unquenchable toxic sponge never was a solution to mining’s waste disposal problems. The mining industry has slowly come to understand this, through the whip of g…
MINING GOES GREEN
Industry and government are grappling with the question of how much pollution is acceptable Nineteen eighty-nine is shaping up to be the year of decision on the environment. Industry and business have…
CYANIDE SOLUTIONS TIONS
An increasing number of Canadian gold mills are turning to chemical treatment processes to destroy and recycle toxic cyanide. Today, environmental protection laws in Canada are increasingly patterned …
LEACH PAD LEADERS
Heap leachers continue to refine their techniques for fatter profits. By Olav Svela Innovation has been a hallmark of the heap leachers. That may be because this mineral extraction process itself was…
Lord River program enhances potential
Some encouraging results have been reported by Lord River Gold Mines (VSE) from its Trout Creek property, 15 miles southeast of Carlin, Nev. Five holes totalling 2,280 ft were drilled in the central f…
Eastmaque Gold records net profit
Eastmaque Gold Mines (TSE) reported net earnings of $682,225 for the nine months ended March 31. A net loss of 1 cents per share was recorded because of accrued dividends on the 8% outstanding prefer…