Cyprus adopts protection plan
Cyprus Minerals Company has adopted a complex rights program which its chairman, John Duncan, claims will provide “additional protection against abusive takeover tactics, such as partial tender offers…
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Larger crusher for Magino mine
A larger crushing unit to boost mill throughput from 400 tons of ore per day to 500 tons will be installed at the Magino gold mine in northeastern Ontario, Muscocho Explorations (TSE) and McNellen Res…
More high grade gold at Weedy Lake
Drilling is continuing on the Golden Heart deposit near Weedy Lake, Sask., where recent drill holes have intersected more high grade gold values across wide widths, Golden Rule Resources (TSE) says. O…
Radisson plans production in August at Duquesne bet
Having acquired a 25% interest in the Duquesne gold project about 19 miles north of Rouyn-Noranda, Radisson Mining Resources (ME) reports it plans to purchase the remaining 75% interest as well. And, …
Duration, Aurogin active at Batchewana
Duration Mines (TSE) is allowing its Theresa gold property to flood as a cost savings measure. The company explains that the cost of keeping the underground workings dry far exceeds the cost of future…
MINERAL PROCESSING RESIN ON THE RISE
The search for better extraction Ttechnology has turned into a Tgold rush of another kind in the labs of Canadian researchers For some time now, scientists in the U S , South Africa, the U S S R , and…
50 YEARS AGO TODAY HALLNOR SETTLES INTO STRIDE
Hallnor Mines, in the Porcupine area of northern Ontario, has straightened away into a more representative pace of production, with the mill treating about 340 tons of half-ounce ore daily With a high…
EXPLORATION ’89
With this our fourth issue in as many years dedicated to mining exploration across the country, we are trying something new In issues past, we covered grassroots exploration This time, we asked a se…
COMPACT CORE DRILLS
Diamond-impregnated bits and Dthe wireline method of recoverDing core (without removing the drill rods) have been an industry standard since they were introduced in the 1970s Various safety features …
MR EXPLORTATION Noranda Exploration’s John Harvey
Throughout its history the Noranda company * * * has manifested what is tantamount to genius in finding, by accident or design, the right man for the job — from the book “Noranda” by Leslie Roberts N…
50 YEARS AGO TODAY ROCK BURST STUDY
The question of rock bursts in northern Ontario mines is receiving the study of government authorities, Premier Hepburn has announced Some 10 days or so before the recent Lake Shore accident, a commit…
THE BIG NICKEL SEARCH
These are not exactly boom times in nickel exploration for Canada’s two major nickel producers It’s not like the late 1960s and early 1970s when Inco Ltd went searching for lateritic nickel deposits …