Letters Open for Business
With reference to your article on zinc (“Outshining Other Major Metals”) in the November issue, I wish to inform you that the Black Angel mine is not closed. It is operated by Boliden, the Swedish min…
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Suppliers’ Notes INSLEY MANUFACTURING CO.
The Insley Manufacturing Co., formerly of Indianapolis, Ind., has been bought by Badger Construction Equipment Co. of Winona, Min. In addition to producing the Insley family of hydraulic backhoes, the…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– GRANBY RUSHES PREPARATIONS FOR RE-
In view of the improved market for copper, preparations are being hastened for the resumption of operations at the Granby Consolidated M.S. & P. Co.’s Copper Mountain mine and 2,500-ton concentrator a…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Hydraulic Shovel
Harnischfeger Corp. of Milwaukee, Wis., has built a heavy hydraulic shovel which runs on a P&H undercarriage. Called the P&H 1200B, the new shovel has a gross operating weight of 400,000 lb and can de…
ON THE MOVE IRD MECHANALYSIS
IRD Mechanalysis of Stoney Creek (Hamilton), Ont., has appointed Robert Taylor as district manager of the Montreal North territory and Douglas MacMillan as consulting service technician covering Quebe…
Profile The Luck of a Low-Grader
Dennis MacLeod has this thing about ore grades. He likes to find ways of making money at grades so low that most of the mining fraternity would turn its nose up at it. It’s no wonder he was attracted …
ON THE MOVE PALL INDUSTRIAL HYDRAULICS CORP.
John Kuzina has been appointed vice-president of industrial sales for Pall Industrial Hydraulics Corp., based in East Hills, N.Y. He joined Pall Corp. in 1983 as market sales specialist and recently s…
Suppliers’ Notes NCR CORP.
A 3-year agreement has been signed, naming NCR Corp. as the nationally authorized hardware service vendor for Jonas & Erickson’s end-users operating on IBM hardware as well as other peripheral equipme…
CROSS CUTS An Ocean of Gold
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…
I, Robot
Standing in the yard of Tamrock’s expanding manufacturing plant in Tampere, Finland, James McCormack, a project mine engineer for Placer Development rolls his eyes at a computerized jumbo being demons…
Letters Seeing Things
During the last few years i have had the opportunity to work with a number of young geologists from whom I have learned that geological mapping or core-logging is an illusion — an illusion in the sen…
CROSS CUTS Keep it Simple
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…