WHAT’S NEW Clinometer
Emaco (Canada) has introduced the new AccuStar Clinometer. The unit is an electronic sensor that measures vertical angles. It is available as either an analog input/ output or digital input/output dev…
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Debunking a myth HOW TO COMPENSATE FOR INITIAL UNDERESTIMATION OF
The precise dimensions of most mineral deposits are not known until they have been nearly mined out. The amount of ore that is ultimately recovered is, in many cases, considerably greater than the ini…
Debunking a myth DEFINITIONS AND METHODOLOGY
A discovery is defined here as a mineral deposit attractive enough to have warranted the expenditure necessary to establish its tonnage and grade. The date of discovery is normally taken to be the yea…
A BREAKNECK PACE S-3 Mine
Rarely is a mining company able to start up two gold mines successfully within the span of only four months. Campbell Resources has done just that, with the Joe Mann and S-3 mines in the Chibougamau c…
A BREAKNECK PACE Goldex
Back in 1973 when the price of gold was a trifling $80(us) an ounce, Goldex Mines was driving a decline at its Dubuisson property, near Val d’Or, Que. There was even talk of putting the property int…
A BREAKNECK PACE JOE MANN
It is sometimes said that the best place to look for a new mine is an old mine — and the Joe Mann gold operation in Chibougamau, Que., is a good example. The mine has operated twice before, under var…
A BREAKNECK PACE K.L. Tailings
Production was scheduled to have started in mid-November on a tailings retreatment project in Kirkland Lake, Ont. Gold mine tailings have been deposited in nine separate tailings areas here over the p…
A BREAKNECK PACE Golden Bear
The rugged Dease Lake area of northern B.C. will soon be the site of a new gold mine when the Golden Bear property, owned by North American Metals and Chevron Canada Resources, starts producing the ye…
A BREAKNECK PACE NICKEL PLATE
The inappropriately-named Nickel Plate Mountain is a goldbug’s dream. Placer gold first drew miners to the area near Hedley, B.C., in the 1860s. Later, lode-type gold brought the miners back to the ar…
Law SPELLING IT OUT – Joint Venture Agreements
If there are two parties to an agreement, whether or not they have equal interests, decisions will either be unilateral or they will be unanimous. There is no in-between. So in these circumstances, wh…
A BREAKNECK PACE Beacon
One of the first new mines to come into production last year was D’Or Val Mines’ Beacon mine, east of Val D’Or, Que. It cost this Hughes-Lang company $35 million to bring the mine into production last…
A BREAKNECK PACE Kremzar
That Canamax Resources is bringing yet another mine into production hardly rates as news anymore. True news would be that this aggressive producer/explorer isn’t cutting the ceremonial ribbon on anoth…