Maintenance MAINTAINING THE HOIST
Ensuring that a hoisting plant is safe and will run when it is needed requires more than the mandatory tests. The true price is constant vigilance aimed at detecting potential problems. Aware of the c…
News
People (February 01, 1988)
Inspiration Resources — Burton M. Joyse appointed chief operating officer.
Metal Prices PRODUCER PRICES (February 01, 1988)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 89.50 cents -91.50 cents per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.14-$1.18 per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). BISMUTH: New York dealer $4.75-$4.85 per lb. (Jan 14, 1988). CAD…
The 1987 Coal Review WESTAR
Vancouver-based Westar Mining is Canada’s largest exporter of metallurgical coal although it also exports thermal coal. The company is 66.6% owned by British Columbia Resources Investment Corp. and 33…
Important results from OGS study
Among the significant Ontario Geological Survey studies in the Northwest Region reported in the past year was the discovery of large areas of shallow oceanic platform sequences in several Ontario gree…
Letters to the Editor “My heart bleeds”
Re Juniors can’t afford red tape for speculators Jan 18: As one of the evil speculators who “hides behind a curtain,” etc., “in and out for a killing, or to rake the markets” whenever I get a chance, …
Acadia ups tons, grades
Avard Hudgins is building a mine. Nine fill-in holes put down on the L’Estrange shoot on Acadia Mineral Ventures’ Mooseland property in Nova Scotia have demonstrated the existence and continuity of a …
Core prepares for hard look at Knora gold bet
After months of quiet negotiations, Edmonton-based Core Explorations has got its hands on a property with some small-scale production potential. Located in the Kenora Mining Division, near Kenora, Ont…
Ameritex and Cogema in Burntbush program
Ameritex Resources and joint- venture partner Cogema Canada are planning an $815,000 exploration program at the Burntbush River project in Noseworthy and Hoblitzell twps. in northeastern Ontario, Amer…
Seville moving modular mill from Nevada to Lumby, B.C.
Vancouver-listed Golden Seville Resources this week announced it plans to move a gold ore processing mill from Fallen, Nev., to the Lumby gold property in south-central British Columbia pending comple…
Hudson Bay drops option on Metalore’s Brookbank
Hudson Bay Gold has terminated its option agreement with Metalore Resources which was signed more than 1 1/2/ years ago. The deal, which committed Hudson Bay to sinking a 1,800-ft shaft on Metalore’s …
EDITORIAL Hewers of Wood
For a long time, Canadians have been known, almost universally, as hewers of wood and drawers of water, a phrase which encompasses our supposed economic dependence on our natural resources — includin…