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…
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A BREAKNECK PACE Detour Lake
The Detour Lake gold mine, northeast of Timmins, Ont., shifted from an open-pit to an underground operation late last year. At the time of writing, the operators were processing low grade, stockpiled …
WHAT’S NEW Surveying Instrument
A compact, lightweight and economical surveying instrument capable of angle and distance measurement has been introduced by Nikon, of Garden City, N.Y. The instrument can calculate co- ordinates and t…
A BREAKNECK PACE Murray Brook
Construction could begin by next May on an open-pit gold and silver mine, 45 miles west of Bathurst, N.B. The federal government has kicked in $5.4 million in the form of loan insurance to help cover …
Editor’s Note AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD
Elliot Lake was a boom town in 1956, the impetus for which was essentially the United States’ need for a secure supply of the yellow powder that had so convincingly and tragically ended the Second Wor…
Ketza River A BREAKNECK PACE
Canamax Resources is growing at an impressive clip. Last year the Bell Creek mine, in northern Ontario, shipped its maiden dore bar. This year, its Ketza River project, in the Yukon, and the Kremzar d…
A BREAKNECK PACE Giant Yellowknife
Canada’s third tailings re-treatment project is scheduled to start up in Yellowknife this May. Between June 15 and Aug 28 last year, owner Giant Yellowknife Mines ran a pilot plant operation to find t…
Debunking a myth HOW TO TELL THE JUNIORS FROM THE SENIORS
The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …
A BREAKNECK PACE St Andrew
It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …
A BREAKNECK PACE JOHNNY MOUNTAIN
Measured reserves of fewer than 130,000 tons might seem a touch on the light side for anyone to start talking about a mine. But Skyline Resources is more than just talking about that reserve figure fo…
A BREAKNECK PACE Winston Lake
Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…
Cross-Cuts THOSE GRASPING CANADIANS
Here’s a curious twist. U.S. energy producers ear that “the Canadians” might grab a larger piece of the U.S. energy market. (This must be a reversal of the wolf sweeping down on the fold.) Their conce…