On the move (October 04, 1990)
In his new position of executive vice-president of Dayco Products, Bruce McNeil will have direct responsibility for all sales and marketing functions. He joined the company in 1977 from the accounting…
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Still Gilded
The Golden Highway is still gilded. Plenty of mines are produ along this dual stretch of asphalt that runs from Timmins and Kirkland Lake, Ont., to Val d’Or, Que. Two major faults — Porcupine-Destor …
Suppliers’ Notes (October 04, 1990)
Intera Information Technologogs Corp. of Calgary, Alta. is acquiring certain assets of the Aero Service division of Western Atlas International, a unit of Dresser Industries and Litton Industries. Int…
Wall to wall stability
Monitoring rock slopes is essential to the success of most op mines. Slopes may become unstable during blasting, during spring thaw or because of geological factors such as an undetected layer of kaol…
Kennecott’s gravy train
The first year of mining the open-pit Ridgeway deposits in So Carolina was, to borrow a term employed by Engineering Manager Peter Evans, “gravy.” The soft oxides allowed blasthole spacings of 20 ft. …
FOLLOWING THE FAULT: The gold mines of northeastern Ontario and
AMERICAN BARRICK When American Barrick’s Holt-McDermott mine came into the public eye in the late 1980s, the reserve was estimated at about 3.3 million tons grading nearly 0.19 oz. gold per ton (three…
Corporate Downsizing
In recent times, downsizing has become an intrinsic managemen strategy as organizations strive to optimize opportunities and conserve limited resouuces in the 1990s — a decade that will be characteri…
Construction Equipment
The long hours and hot weather of summer are the ultimate tes equipment. Maintenance managers with the best springtime preparation stand the greatest chance of making it through the summer season with…
THE SUDBURY BASIN: Back to the classroom
Paul Parker was faced with an alarming prospect. The vice-president for human resources and administration at Inco’s Ontario Division realized his firm was poised at a historic and disagreeable waters…
Chutine awaiting feasibility study
A feasibility study for an open- pit copper mining operation in northwestern Mexico is expected to be completed during the second half of October, shareholders of Chutine Resources (VSE) were told at …
Batachawana survey spurs minor staking
A modest increase in claim- staking activity has been reported in the Batachawana Bay area, north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., following the release of an airborne geophysical survey by the Ontario gove…
GOLDFUNDS2 (October 01, 1990)
MVP BGR Central Capital Net value $10.48 $5.73 $0.31 Price $9.375 $5.375 $0.17 Discount 10.54% 6.2% 45.2% Value $62,424,807 $90,430,613 N/A…