Results released by a number of participants in the Vezza-Douay Twp. region of northwestern Quebec have drawn attention to what looks like a promising gold exploration play. While economic gold values…
Anomalous surface assay results have been reported by Goldbank Ventures (ASE) from the Hayes gold showing on the company’s 100% owned Bon property on Vancouver Island, about 15 miles northwest of Nana…
A Compact PLC Idec Canada is marketing a compact programmable “logic controller” (PLC) manufactured in Japan. The units, ideal for replacing relay and timer circuits, are being distributed in Canada b…
FREE TRADE OPTIMISM The following is from a speech delivered to the Mineral Development Forum in early December last year in Toronto by Maureen Farrow, a partner of the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Gr…
It wasn’t the type of crowd Monte Hummel was used to addressing. Gamely, the president of the World Wildlife Fund stood before the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Ca…
A contract has been awarded by the International Magnesium Association to the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) for a 4-year project to study the fundamental aspects of the corr…
Not long ago, the larger Canadian gold mining companies were content to report two to three year’s worth of reserves at their individual mines. The practice, I was recently told by a mining veteran, b…
Distributed control systems (DCS) were introduced in the mid-1970s, according to Isabelle Clauzier and Burton Roberts of B.R.I.C. Systems Integrators, who delivered a paper on the subject at an operat…
I read, with great interest and some dismay the article “Native Miners” by Erik Watt (NMM, Feb/90), which dealt with the involvement of native persons in northern mine operations. I feel their natural…
The 04 break (in underground Tnomenclature) or Kirkland Lake Main break (as it’s more widely known) has been the source of gold ore for Macassa for the past 57 years. It is the same break that nurture…
In March, 1989, a miner was killed at Noranda’s Lyon Lake mine in Ontario when a load-haul-dump machine (LHD), controlled by a radio frequency remote control, scooped him up and drove over a 24-metre …
The Boy Scouts’ motto, “Be prepared,” is equally applicable to today’s mining industry as more and more companies struggle to adapt to new trends. Four years ago, the industry began a shift toward so-…
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