What’s New ELECTRONIC BLASTER’S GUIDE
A new, pocket-size, full-featured electronic blaster’s guide is now available from Du Pont Canada’s Applied Technology & Blasting Services group. It is a programmable 16K computer that contains nine s…
News
50 Years Ago FEBRUARY, 1938 HAVE WE MADE THE MOST OF $35 GOLD?
Fifty-seven per cent of our gold mines have developed out of properties which had been abandoned or became otherwise dormant. Only 36 1/2 % have been de veloped directly and con tinuously from the ori…
Queries Dealer says buying gold is easy matter
I’ve read how easy it is to buy gold from a bank or trust company such as Guardian Trust. But how do you go about selling it? Is it easy to do? Do you have to pay any fees? J.K., Scarborough, Ont. Ac…
Suppliers’ Notes (February 01, 1988)
A new 480-page occupational safety and health catalogue is available from Toronto, Ont.-based Safety House of Canada. Safety House, one of Canada’s major suppliers of safety equipment, medical supplie…
Westmin to operate Premier gold mine
When the Granduc Copper mine closed al most four years ago followed by Scottie Gold the town of Stewart prepared for the worst. But the last thing anybody should do is write off an historic mining tow…
Quebec mining group raises $23.4 million
Quebec-based Groupe Minier O, comprising seven junior mining exploration companies, raised slightly more than $23.4 million in 1987 for its various exploration projects. Bulk of the funding came from …
Montreal Exchange Audrey discoveries
Announcing the discovery of two promising massive sulphide lenses near its polymetallic Mobrun mine, which went into production during the latter half of 1987 in the Rouyn- Noranda area of Quebec, was…
Silverside acquires 105 mining claims
Recently announcing the acquisition by staking of 105 mining claims in three separate groups in the Confederation-Uchi Lakes area of northwestern Ontario was Silverside Resources of Toronto. One of th…
Inco gives green light to Montana gold mine
Toronto-based Inco Gold and Homestake Mining have elected to go ahead with a new gold project at Jardine, Mont. One of the principal properties in the Inco Gold portfolio, the project is a 50%-50% joi…
Cross-Cuts WHERE’S THE FIRE?
Designers in Moscow say they have developed a device that can locate and extinguish pit fires in coal mines in a matter of minutes. The device fills the pit with liquid helium, which chokes out the fi…
Letters REFRESHINGLY UNRADICAL
I read with interest James Borland’s recent article on “Environ mental Detente” (November, 1987, issue). It was gratifying to see Roy Aitken, Ian Smyth, and Dave Morton man as signators of the joint t…
Core shack PORPHYRY SILLS: The Colomac Property
Colomac, located 137 miles north of Yellowknife, N.W.T., contains proven and probable reserves in Zone 2 of 16,027,000 tons averaging 0.064 oz gold per ton in a fractured and altered quartz-feldspar p…