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Esco Ltd. of Scarborough, Ont., is marketing a new steel tooth for bucket wheel excavators. Using a casting technique developed at the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology’s Physical Metall…

With its head office in Calgary, Fording Coal employs about 1,240 personnel in Alberta and British Columbia. Established in 1968 to develop coal reserves, Fording is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cana…

Straight drop of $40 for all power up to 8,000 h.p. for Ontario and Quebec mines in 1938 — successive reduction of past eight years brings savings to customers to million dollars a year. Canada North…

Despite a recent drop in the price of gold bullion, a couple of Alberta gold issues were big traders this week. After a recent lull in investor interest, Argus Resources posted a volume of 400,200 — …

A second- phase drill program has been completed at the Kinsley Mountain property of Cominco Resources International in Nevada. U.S. Minerals Exploration is the company’s joint venture partner in the …

John Deere has redesigned its compact crawler line and has introduced a new line of machine sizes. The all new 70-hp 450G, 80-hp 550G and 90-hp 650G dozers provide more quality and value than any of J…

The executives at Pegasus Gold may not have heard the old saying about the guy who tried to get blood from a stone, but if asked about the mining company which became famous for extracting gold from l…

It would be hard to put numbers on it, but bush pilots and the air services a lot of them have launched across Canada have played a tremendously vital role in the finding and development of this count…

Candol Developments has acquired options giving the company the right to acquire a 40% interest in seven properties. The properties cover several gold, silver and base metal showings which will be the…

Gold output at the Cannon mine at Wenatchee, Wash., was approximately 6% higher than expected in 1987, according to Breakwater Resources which has a 49% interest in the mine. Calgary-based Asamera Inc…

Marubeni America Corp. of Bensenville, Ill., has introduced a Tri- Sensing System on its hcr-c180r Furukawa rock drill. By monitoring flushing air volumes, air pressure and rotational torque while dri…

Pierre Gauthier should be smiling. His company, St. Genevieve Resources, through the 89.7%- owned Montreal junior Bay Resources and Services, has hit some better-than-average results on it’s Fontana p…