CROSS-CUTS ONTARIO’S ACCIDENTS LOWEST EVER
The Mines Accident Prevention Association of Ontario says 1986 saw the lowest accident frequency rate ever recorded in the history of Ontario’s mining industry. During the year the lost- time injury f…
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CROSS CUTS Ceative Financing
A Chinese project with a couple of Canadian connections is expected to result in the largest coal mine in the world. The Royal Bank of Canada is one of five co-lead banks in a consortium of 33 banks i…
TECH CORP. Yukon Paydirt
Teck Corp. manages the small (4,000-oz-per-year) Granville joint venture, in the Yukon’s famous Klondike district on behalf of Balner Enterprises (40%). Operations are seasonal at the placer gold mine…
CROSS-CUTS TOWERING INFERNO
Mining equipment manufacturers are always on the lookout for areas in which to diversify, and Connellsville Elevator Corp. of Pennsylvania seems to have found a market niche just waiting to be filled….
LETTERS Foreign Explorers
We read with great interest the March issue of The Northern Miner Magazine dealing with Exploration ’87. We noticed that the picture which was supposed to illustrate the draft article which we submitt…
TECK CORP Newfoundland Zinc: Ready to Go
With the drop in the price of zinc and declining ore grades, Teck has no immediate plans to re-open the Newfoundland Zinc mine although an improvement in price could trigger a production decision. The…
TECK CORP. Hemlo Mine’s Future in Judges’ Hands
By the time you read this, the Ontario Court of Appeal may have handed down one of the most important decisions ever made by a Canadian court concerning the mining industry — Lac Minerals vs. Interna…
TECK CORP. A Jackpot in the Arctic
When, in 1968, bush pilot and prospector Bob Baker spotted a mineral-stained creek in northwestern Alaska, he reported the unusual observation to the U.S. Geological Survey. Little did he know he had…
TECK CORP. The Biggest and the Best
When Cominco’s new lead smelter at Trail, B.C., opens in early 1989, it will mark substantial completion of a half-billion-dollar modernization of the world’s largest zinc-lead metallurgical complex. …
TECK CORP. Teck’s exploration plans
Teck Explorations will undertake five major programs in 1987 in North America, plus “whatever else comes along,” says President John May. Two of these are former Teck producers (one in Newfoundland, t…
TECH CORP. New LIfe for Lamaque
For 50 years the Lamaque mine in northwestern Quebec turned out enough gold — more than 4.5 million oz — to make it Quebec’s biggest gold producer. Today, little more than a year since the decision …
TECK CORP Model Miner
By just about any measure, Teck Corp. is the model mining company of the 1980s. The foundation of the com pany’s future is its low-cost, long-life orebodies. They are the envy of the mining world, di…