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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…

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 …

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…

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…

Dallas, Tex.-based Dresser Industries has acquired Pleuger Unterwasserpumpen G.m.b.H. Both companies have manufacturing plants in Canada. The Pleuger ** organization will be integrated with the world…

Since November, 1986, the mining and investment industries have been awaiting the Ontario Court of Appeal judgment in the case involving Lac Minerals and International Corona Resources. Well, it is he…

Drifting to date on the No. 1 shoot east on the 425-ft level at Straw Lake Beach Mines shows it to be of considerably higher grade than the same shoot on the 300-ft horizon where it showed an average …

During the past season, exploration of the large mining concession in Labrador, held by Labrador Mining and Exploration Co., has resulted in the discovery of two iron ore deposits believed to have pos…

I have just read your article “Very Refined” in the September, 1987, edition. This article reports on “Canada’s private precious metal refiners — Degussa Canada in Burlington, Ont…. and Johnson Ma…

Scintrex Ltd., a high-tech company based in Concord, Ont., has been awarded the rights to engineer, manufacture and market a portable trace narcotics detector. The detector is the result of four years…

The Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy’s method of mineral claim- staking (commonly known as paper-staking) will likely form the basis of a new, streamlined system of claim-staking for the cou…

Galesburg, Ill.-based National Seal Co. has announced a $6.3-million, 2-phase capital expenditure program to boost manufacturing capacity. Featured is the world’s largest flat sheet extruder of hdpe g…