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Something is going on in the Canadian uranium industry. It’s happening rather quietly, and it doesn’t involve the junior resource sector or most of Canada’s major mining companies. Foreign companies a…

As a boy, I first learned about platinum from my great-grandfather, a metallurgist who, back in the 1870s, worked it in high-quality laboratory equipment and dentistry. In those days, inventive minds …

Norman Keevil Jr, president of Teck Corp., suggested last year that a price turnaround for copper couldn’t be far off. The reason? His board of directors was almost unanimously negative on the red met…

The mining of sphalerite, the ore mineral of zinc, is headed for a downturn in Canada. But you’d never suspect it, judging from the amount of money being spent developing new mines and modernizing old…

I recently received a phone call I from a senior executive asking for I an employment reference on an individual he was about to hire. He started off by saying: “I’ve offered the job contingent upon a…

While it probably would be difficult to find anyone who would suggest gold entirely lost its lustre in 1988, more than a few would concede that its price performance excited only bearish investors. St…

Flintabbatey Flonatin. How awkward a civic handle that would have been for the town fathers. Fortunately, the discoverers of the great orebody that became the guts of the Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting …

When Caterpillar Inc. set out nearly 20 years ago to redesign the track-type tractor, it knew that it was tampering with success. The Cat D9, the biggest Caterpillar tractor on the market at the time,…

In the article “Unconventional Grading” in your August issue, you have made an outstanding contribution to the prevailing confusion about the relationship of the metric system to other systems of weig…

I read with interest your “Cross-cuts” article in the June issue about the golden bungle at Delnite Mines on June 2, 1950. I was the chief geologist at that time and George Vary (mine superintendent) …

Diamond drilling contractor N. Morissette Canada announces the retirement of Dave Anderson. He joined Morissette in 1962 and has been president and general manager since 1976. In total, he has close t…

Silver prices have been more volatile than gold since the beginning of 1988, but the metal failed to sustain a rally. By early fa ll, it was hovering in the $6.25 (US)-per-oz range, about the price at…