What’s New Impact Crushers Built in Canada
Jadcan Equipment of Bolton, Ont. has built and delivered two impact crushers, new to the Canadian market. The company imported the technology from Kleeman Reiner of Germany and built the impact crushe…
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50 Years Ago DECEMBER, 1937 IDEAL 1-MAN MINE CLAIMS TO BE THE
From David Tait, Victoria, secretary for Nootka Zeballos Gold Mines, The ** Northern Miner has a letter which gives details of the Privateer Mine, ** operated by his company. Mr Tait’s letter tells it…
Managing HUMANITY AND AUTOMATION
It is easy to discuss (in the cold terms of international economics) job losses and dislocations Icaused by the introduction into our mines and mills of cost-cutting technology. It is less easy to mak…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Peacock Inc. (December 01, 1987)
Mississauga, Ont.-based Peacock Inc. is opening a new addition to its Toronto Service Building. The company is a rebuilder of mechanical equipment, including pumps, turbines, compressors, mine hoists …
COST-CUTTER
Copper was one of the last metals to recover from the economic recession. But whether today’s higher prices will continue is a big question. Even so, the red metal is finally attracting some attention…
DECADES OF CHANGE
Ten years ago, at the Exploration ’77 meeting in Ottawa, Allan Spector and Wilfred Parker presented a paper entitled Computer Compilation and Interpretation of Geophysical Data. At that time, the geop…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Knelson International Sales
Knelson International Sales of Langley, B.C. has won the 1987 Canada Export Award for Precious Metal Gravity Separators, The awards were announced by Canada’s External Affairs department.
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Ecodyne Ltd.
Ecodyne Ltd.’s Graver Water division has appointed Nortec S.G.S. Inc. of Montreal as sales representative for Quebec. Nortec has represented major process equipment manufacturers for more than 10 year…
Profile TWO TESTERS
William Bondar and Malcolm Clegg chuckle about it now, but the time their Whitehorse assay lab mixed up separate core samples from a customer was really no laughing matter. The samples went into a dry…
Editor’s Note A WORLD CONTENDER
No one can be happier about the remarkably strong copper prices we’re seeing than miners in British Columbia, the largest copper-producing province in Canada. British Columbia alone ranks sixth among …
CROSS-CUTS NEW TREATMENT, OLD DEPOSIT
Soviet scientists have developed a new method of extracting a 95% copper concentrate from Udokan ores found in remote eastern Siberia. The method has been successfully tested in experimental laborator…
50 Years Ago DECEMBER, 1937 UPTURN EXPECTED IN BASE METALS
In metal mining circles in Canada, there is a quite widely held opinion that base metal prices are due for a rally toward the first of the year. Some quarters believe that the upturn will be well sust…