Platinum, which characteristically has the attributes of both a precious metal and an industrial metal, ended 1990 on a subdued note. In many ways, last year can be thought of as two distinct halves. …
Mineral exploration is a highly competitive business, yet the key to success may be to combine the knowledge of the competition with that of your own. If you avail yourself in some way of all the peop…
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…
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 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…
It’s a good bet armchair critics this year will scrutinize Placer Dome’s Mt. Milligan project, north of Prince George, B.C. It is the country’s biggest potential gold/copper producer, ranking in size …
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 …
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…
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. …
“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…
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…
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…
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