PROFILE Two heads are better
Had her husband been born 20 years later, Anne Flanagan is convinced that, instead of making his name as half of Canada’s most successful mineral exploration team, he would have been an astronaut. “Te…
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Chibougamau bustle
Eighty-three years ago, Joseph Obalski steered his canoe into a hitherto little-explored mineralized region in the northwestern part of the province. As Quebec’s inspector of mines, he had examined th…
LAW Joint ventures
As most people connected with the mining industry know, the joint venture is a creation of the tax system and therefore cannot possibly be either simple or straightforward. In fact some people find it…
From Timmins to Val d’Or
When Juri Houtman left his New York City office last August to move t o Timmins, he really wasn’t prepared for the problems he was about to face. As assistant to the vice-president at Asarco Inc.’s mi…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES LHD EQUIPMENT
LHD Equipment of North Bay, Ont., will receive a contribution of $75,000 under the federal government’s Industrial and Regional Development Program. The funds go towards the cost of a $300,000 project…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES DEER & CO.
Deer & Co. reports net income of $25.5 million(US) or 38 cents per share for the third quarter of its 1987 fiscal year vs. a restated quarterly net loss of $33.8 million or 50 cents per share last y…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES MACKLEY PUMPS
Mackley Pumps, part of British-based nei Clarke Chapman, has recently won a number of export orders, valued at #150,000, from Zambia and Canada for its specialized pumps. Zambia Consolidated Copper Mi…
50 YEARS AGO –OCTOBER, 1937– Canada’s potential is larger,
Recently returned to Toronto from Russia, Percy Hopkins, consulting geologist, remarked that he was greatly impressed with certain aspects of the Soviet mining situation. But he was not greatly impres…
EDITOR’S NOTE Good times
Things haven’t looked this good for Canadian gold miners in years. Prices are up and it looks like South African production is down. Although we may have slipped to fourth place among gold producing …
LETTERS Unmentioned
Patrick Whiteway’s article entitled “Artificial Operators,” in the July issue, was very interesting and informative. The quality of the article was unfortunately marred, in our view, by the way you ha…
LETTERS Nickel plate skepticism
The article by David Duval (Third Time Lucky) in the July issue mentioned my name in association with the open pit operation of Mascot Gold Mines on Nickel Plate Mountain, near Hedley, B.C. Mr Duval …
ORE HORIZONS The Egerton-McLean deposit
The Egerton-McLean gold deposit on Pan East Resources’ Fifteen Mile Stream property is in Halifax Cty., N.S., about 62 miles northeast of the city of Halifax. The deposit is estimated to contain drill…