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A world figure and one of the leading scientists of his time has passe d from the picture In the death of Dr Arthur Philemon Coleman, dean of Canadian geologists, the country has lost a great contrib…

In the November issue, there was a letter that suggested you contributed to the confusion between metric and other systems of measures It referred to an earlier article that stated one troy ounce is …

Skeptics in the industry will be watching the metallurgical results at Caribou very closely But Mill Manager Steve Williams and Mill Foreman Vic Ferron are confident it will perform up to snuff That…

In black type and couched in an authoritative tone, a press release from the would-be mining company announces an initial ore reserve figure: “2 5 million tonnes grading 6 3 g gold per tonne ” This is…

Canadian mining crashed U S news magazine columns last week when Time, the popular big-circulation vehicle, picked up an exclusive report from The Northern Miner The item concerned the impending entr…

Our work within the Bridge River mining camp of southwest British Columbia has shed new light on regional metallogeny: recent discussions concerning the nature and distribution of metal concentrations…

A shining metal headframe, a small trailer complex of offices and a long, metal building sparkle in the sunlight of a rare perfect day on the Barrens at Courageous Lake, N W T Here, Thyssen Mining Co…

Recent modifications to a zinc Rextraction process at CoRminco’s Trail, B C , smelter have almost doubled production efficiency during plant testing Tests of the modified zinc slag fuming process, co…

The Lindsley deposit, 6 5 km north of Sudbury, in Blezard Twp, Ont , is 100%-owned by Falconbridge Ltd It is a polymetallic sulphide deposit, with values in nickel, copper, cobalt, gold, platinum and…

I think Patrick Whiteway has missed one of the key points about the real reason why HudBay (Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting) continues to turn the heads of more conservative mining groups His story about…

In an article on American Barrick President Robert Smith, in the September issue, a bonus devised by him and Dr Brian Meikle is credited with keeping the union out of the Camflo mine The article ment…

Keen observers of drill core at the annual meeting of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto last March may have noticed a box of unusual core from the Bathurst camp Taken from …