Tundra
Described as Canada’s largest undeveloped gold resource, the Tundra deposit is reported to host potential reserves of some 32 million tons grading 0.20 oz gold per ton. The deposit is located 130 mile…
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Editor’s Note KEEP IT SIMPLE
The mining industry has a standard and accepted way of reporting reserves. First, the reserve category — proven, probable or possible — is given, then the tonnage and grade. But a new practice has …
Esso Minerals Canada for sale
The assets of Esso Minerals Canada, recently put up for sale by parent Imperial Oil (N.M., Sept 26/88) include several interesting gold prospects. In the Toodoggone area of northern British Columbia, …
Something Old, Something New
For JoAnne Nelson, project geologist working withing the Canada- British Columbia Mineral Development Agreement, the past has come alive in an unusual way. In June, 1987, The University of British Col…
Meetings (October 03, 1988)
Gemcom Services Inc. is hosting a 4-day workshop entitled “Introduction to Geostatistics,” in Vancouver from Nov 2-5. For further information, contact Craig Hasbon at (604) 684-6550 or Fax (604) 687-5…
Noront gets nod from Central Crude as exploration arm
Noront Resources (VSE) is the company that has been chosen by Central Crude (VSE) to acquire an interest in certain of the properties recently acquired by Crude in the Mishibishu, Swayze and Hemlo are…
Landmark acquires Oakwood A shares
Toronto-based Landmark Corp. (TSE) has acquired 450,000 Class A non-voting shares of Oakwood Petroleums from Drake Holdings Ltd. for a consideration of $450,000, the company said recent. The company a…
Toronto Stock Exchange Trading activity depressed by bearish
A base of support appears to be building around the 3,200-pt mark as another week of directionless trading came to a close. Today’s close of 3,266.15 pts was down 4 pts — typical of the trading activ…
5-year modernization plan will cost CCR $46 million
A 5-year modernization plan costing $46 million will be undertaken by Canadian Copper Refiners (CCR) at its Montreal East plant. David Goldman, vice-president responsible for the CCR division of Noran…
POINTERS FOR PLANNERS
Much of mine maintenance these days is based on the idea you can predict when a machine will fail. The reasoning goes like this: If you know when a component is going to fail and it costs less to repl…
`Due diligence’ a serious but behind the scene activity
In recent years there has been a great deal of money invested in gold mines — new project financing, mergers, acquisitions and the like. Normally, newspaper reports refer only to the size and financi…
THE CARBON SOLUTION
Recovery of gold from cyanide leach solutions can be carried out by zinc precipitation, carbon-in-pulp (CIP) and resin-in-pulp methods. CIP has been generally favored as the method in recently constru…