THE CARIBOU MILL
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…
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THE ART OF SAMPLEING
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…
50 YEARS AGO TODAY NORTHERN MINER APPEARS IN TIME
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…
Letters Pinchi Lake
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…
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS
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…
RESEARCH IMPROVED SLAG FUMING
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…
A LOOK AT LINDSLEY
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…
Letters Life-saving Radio
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…
Letters Handsome Bonus
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…
HIGH GRADE AND HIGH HOPES
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 …
Laws `WYSIWYG’
In the language of the computer Isalesman, the acronym wysiwyg Istands for “What You See Is What You Get” — a commendable thought not only in computers but also in mining agreements Unfortunately, wi…
THE JUST_IN_TIME MINE
April 29, 1985, has special significance for geologist Richard Cavalero That’s the day he received notice that Anaconda Minerals was going to sell off its assets Included in the sale was a deposit he…