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North Safety Products Rexdale, Ont.-based North Safety Products is selling two new items: an improved Model 9880 air-purifying respirator and the LSF 2075 style full-body harness. The respirator is eq…
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Scintrex Ltd. of Concord, Ont. has been awarded C$2.7 million in contracts by Romenergo, Romania’s second Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor. Scintrex supplied simlar equipment for Romania’s f…
Checking it twice
The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…
The uniqueness of Eskay
Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…
Letters (December 07, 1990)
HOYLE POND’S GENESIS In the september, 1990 issue of the Northern Miner Magazine, the article entitled “Falco’s Golden Egg” refers to the Hoyle Pond discovery and states: “Gold was discovered in 1976 …
Thompson – The other INCO
Inco Ltd. is spending heavily to secure its future in Thompson, Man. In addition to the C$108 million already committed to the 1-C orebody at the main Thompson mine, Birchtree reactivation and the Tho…
50 years ago – December, 1940
DEMAND FULLY MET Robert Stanley, president of International Nickel Co. of Canada, reports that all war and ordinary demands are being fully supplied. He adds that none of the company’s products is bei…
Cross-Cuts (December 07, 1990)
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Ontario Mining Association Chairman Andy Rickaby, addressing a lunchtime crowd in downtown Toronto to kick off Ontario Mining Week (in mid-October), points out the uses to whic…
Our Man At Thompson
Generally, little is heard of that other Inco — the nickel operations 400 air miles north of civilization and known as Thompson, Man. When it was announced in December, 1956 in The Northern Miner new…
Calendar (December 07, 1990)
Jan 7-11, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Hydrothermal Alterations. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 8-12, Ren…
Vancouver Stock Exchange Market receives healthy boost
The Vancouver Resource and Composite Indices both staged rebounds over the reporting period ended Nov. 20. The Resource Index rose 13.8 points to finish at 541.63, while the Composite Index followed s…
Hecla, Agnico confirm previous results from Meadowbank gold bet
Lucky Eagle Mines, jointly owned by Hecla Mining (NYSE) and Agnico-Eagle Mines (TSE), has received encouraging results from a 27-hole program on the Meadowbank property, 60 miles northwest of Baker La…