WHAT’S NEW An Infrared Camera
A hand-held portable infrared camera is now available from isi Group of Albuquerque, N.M. The unit, called the VideoTherm camera, can give the user actual temperature readouts. The graphics package al…
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WHAT’S NEW High Explosives
A new non-nitroglycerin, all-purpose gelatin high explosive has been introduced by Austin Powder of Cleveland, Ohio. Called Helix 75, it is recommended for blasting under wet or dry conditions in eith…
WHAT’S NEW Electronic Diesel Engine Control
Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors and Delco Electronics have developed a new electronicunit fuel injection and engine management system. Features of this second-generation system inclu…
50 Years Ago January 1938 LAMAQUE TAKING UP SLACK OF TECK- HUGHES
Lamaque Gold Mines is running neck and neck with Teck-Hughes and, during 1938, the new mine may overtake the parent organization in production rate and earning power. That’s what is revealed in a comp…
A BREAKNECK PACE Isle Dieu
The official opening of Noranda Minerals Inc.’s Isle Dieu mine, near Matagami, Que, is scheduled for September. Discovered in May, 1985, the rich zinc deposit, grading 17.78% zinc, 1.03% copper, 2.34…
WHAT’S NEW Engineering Software
Pincock, Allen & Holt, a major international consulting and engineering firm in Lakewood, Colo., has introduced two new additions to its line of mining software. Opcost provides detailed and summarize…
50 Years Ago January, 1938 REFINED ANTIMONY TO BE PRODUCED
The first commercial production of refined antimony in Canada will take place within the next few months. The metal will be produced by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada in its antimony ref…
Cross-Cuts BASE METAL RESERVES DECLINING
It turns out that 1981 might have been a watershed for base metals. Up until then, Canada’s national reserves of the base metals had been on a steady upward path. According to figures compiled and p…
Maintenance LIFELINE OF THE MINE
Last fall, 20 senior supervisors from Noranda Inc.’s operations across the country went through an intensive hoist maintenance course. For three days in Toronto and another day in Montreal, the group …
A BREAKNECK PACE Puffy Lake
Gold production from Pioneer Metals Corp.’s new Puffy Lake mine, near Flin Flon, Man., was scheduled to reach 75% of design capacity by the end of 1987. By the end of this year, the $18-million underg…
50 Years Ago January, 1938 EMPIRE GOES DEEPER IF “ALL CLEAR”
In order to prove or disprove the bare possibility that a second sill exists below the one recently driven through, Northern Empire will diamond-drill vertically below the 1,700-ft horizon as soon as …
A BREAKNECK PACE Ansil Property
It wasn’t official at presstime, but Minnova Inc.’s schedule for its Ansil property just outside of Rouyn- Noranda, Que., calls for a production start-up at the end of 1988 or the beginning of 1989. W…