Why Gold Mines Fail
It has become fashionable to blame the flow-through tax rules for the excesses that led to the mine development failures of the 1980s. But this is not entirely fair. My colleagues and I were in the un…
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Pooling Resources: An International Council Gets Under Way
The metal-mining industry will soon establish an International Council on Metals and the Environment, a global response to mounting pressures for better health and environmental protection. “This is t…
Mining Honors Its Own: Nine Pioneers enter the Canadian Mining
Randolph Diamond (1891-1978) Metallurgist who created the world’s first successful large-scale differential flotation operation, which unlocked the zine-lead treasures of B.C’s Sullivan Mine. John Ham…
View from the Top: Executive Survey 1991
Environmentalism, weak equity markets, an economic downturn, global competiton and a desert war. No question, Canadian mining faces obstacles. The following, a response to our questionnaire on the pag…
Politically Correct
“The role of new firms in innovation is important not only for its direct contribution but for its implicit threat to older firms, which might not otherwise feel impelled to take the risks of innovati…
New Mucking Machine Announced by EIMCO
MUCKING MADE EASIER Eimco Corp. of Salt Lake City, Utah, has developed a mucking machine, the “Tunneloader,” which is not only much larger and more powerful than any of its present models, but also em…
It’s Your Turn: A Nation-wide Survey Raises Some Interesting
To gain an insight into current maintenance practices and procedures at operating mines, The Northern Miner Magazine recently conducted a maintenance survey of 30 medium-sized underground operations. …
Letters: Sherritt Overlooked
The article “the refractory Riddle,” in your August, 1990 issue, was a very comprehensive compilation of information on the subject of recovering gold from arsenopyrite . . . Or was it? One point not …
On the Move (February 01, 1991)
Viola MacMillan is among nine new inductees to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. MacMillan, 88, was renowned as a mine-finder and financier and was instrumental in transforming the Prospectors & Devel…
Spot prices at a glance (January 28, 1991)
Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $377.90 — $25.80 Silver* $3.98 — $0.24 Platinum*$403.50 — $20.50 Nickel** $3.81 + $0.03 Lead** $0.27 Copper- $1.05 — $0.01 Zinc $0.53 + $0.01 Courtesy of Scotiabank….
Golden Dragon, Glen Auden report assays
Partners Golden Dragon Resources (VSE) and Glen Auden Resources (TSE) have released more assays from their Beatty Twp. gold project under option to Noranda (TSE) in northern Ontario. Noranda Explorati…
Inco gold property open for option
Scominex, a Nova Scotian joint venture made up of Inco (TSE), government-owned Nova Scotia Resources and Husky Oil, is seeking a buyer for its gold property in the central Cape Breton Highlands, N.S. …