What’s New Pump has Low Operating Cost
A new high-chrome iron centrifugal process pump for moving abrasive slurries has been introduced by Allis- Chalmers of Milwaukee, Wis. Called the 1,200 Series pump, it requires about 50% less time to …
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SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Rauma-Repola
Rauma-Repola, one of the largest public companies in Finland, has agreed to purchase the European operations related to the design, manufacture and marketing of crushing equipment of Milwaukee, Wis.-b…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Geotech Ltd.
Geotech Ltd. of Markham, Ont., has acquired the name and assets of McPhar Geophysics. The purchase brings a line of ground geophysical instruments to compliment Geotech’s established airborne electrom…
Ore Horizons GRENVILLE POLYMETALLICS
The Montauban and Grand Calumet deposits are geologically similar lead-zinc-gold- silver deposits occurring in the Grenville Province. The lithological, mineralogical and economic similarities are str…
Winston Lake A WINDOW ON THE WORLD OF ZINC
To the people of a tourist town located in a non-mining part of the country, a 10-year mine life doesn’t sound like much — certainly not enough to justify spending $73 million today to scoop 600,000 …
Maintenance THE SILENT SERVICE
Have you ever heard of silence being used as a performance standard? Consider lubrication. One result of a lubricant at work is the lack of noise as it minimizes friction between metal surfaces in mot…
COST-CUTTER The History of Highland Valley Copper
Discovered in the early 1960s by Egil Lorntzsen, the Lornex orebody was the first porphyry copper deposit developed in British Columbia’s Highland Valley. Shortly thereafter, the larger and higher gra…
Cross-Cuts QUINTETTE’S COAL SHUTTLE
When Quintette Coal decided to truck-haul coal from its newly opened Shikano pit to the process plant three kilometres away, the haulage trucks had to cross a public access road. For safety and effici…
What’s New New Rock Breakers
Three new hydraulic rock breakers rated at 200-, 250- and 500 ft-lb are now available from Teledyne Canada Mining Products in Thornbury, Ont. The largest breaker, called the tb-180, delivers 850 blows…
What’s New Battery Charger
A new charging unit for recharging battery-powered mining equipment is now available from Rebuilders Inc. of Fairmont, W. Va. The skid-mounted model 1,300 charger operates on 480/575 volts ac. The cha…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Pandick Inc.
Norgraphics-Pandick, Canada’s leading international financial printer, has announced that its U.S. partner, Pandick Inc., of New York, the world’s largest financial printer, has signed a joint-ventur…
What’s New Conveyor Scale
Canadian Scale of Sudbury, Ont. is marketing a new electronic device that measures the amount of material on a conveyor belt with an accuracy of 95% to 98%. Called Kilo-wate, the unit measures the ele…