The property would be a hard day’s ride from this hot, dusty town in an area steeped in the history of the American wild west. One would be hard pressed to find men to make that ride to the Dragoon Mo…
Net earnings of $1.7 million were reported by Granges (TSE) for the 1990 first quarter, compared with $655,000 for the similar period of the previous year. The jump in earnings was the result of an in…
Faced with mounting losses and a battered share price, Toronto- based Denison Mines (TSE) may be forced to divest more of its non- uranium assets in order to meet future financial obligations. The com…
Toronto-based International Platinum (TSE) has received a further $250,000 to finance exploration on the Duluth platinum project in Minnesota and the Goodfish gold property near Kirkland Lake, Ont. Th…
Westfield Minerals (TSE) appeared to bow to pressure from some minority shareholders when it agreed recently to commission an independent study into the sale of its mining assets to Northgate Explorat…
Intuition, rather than hard facts, more often guides mine operators in predicting the adverse effects blasts will have on mine excavations. But predicting blast-induced damage is slowly coming into it…
July 2-6, Edinburgh, Scotland. 14th Congress of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions. Organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Contact Secretary, Institution of Mining an…
Jerry Bell is a mechanical engineer who, for the past 16 years, has worked on the construction of coal-fired electric generating plants in Canada. Today he’s in charge of another such project, in Tren…
U.S. NAVY NEEDS MORE ARMOR PLATE The largest awards on record for one time have been made by the U.S. Navy Department involving 22 ships to cost some $327 million. They include two 45,000-ton cruisers…
Clearing Drawpoints North Channel Engineering, near Sudbury, Ont., has developed Safe Shot blasting tubes to clear plugged drawpoints. Safe Shot consists of a self-tying, heavy-duty burlap blasting ba…
Edwin Gauchier is interested in finding mines. That’s why he studied to become a geophysict. And he doesn’t care how they’re found as long as they’re found. His is not the approach taken by most prosp…
The following items are offered for your edification or entertainment. Zaire has long been a major copper producer, first under Belgian colonial rule and, since the 1960s, under independent rule. But …
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