THE NORTHERN MINER; JUNE 1940
U.S. NAVY NEEDS MORE ARMOR PLATE The largest awards on record for one time have been made by the U.S. Navy Department involving 22 ships to cost some $327 million. They include two 45,000-ton cruisers…
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WESTRAY: CURRAGH’S COAL MINE
Jerry Bell is a mechanical engineer who, for the past 16 years, has worked on the construction of coal-fired electric generating plants in Canada. Today he’s in charge of another such project, in Tren…
CALENDAR (June 01, 1990)
July 2-6, Edinburgh, Scotland. 14th Congress of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions. Organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Contact Secretary, Institution of Mining an…
SHEDDING LIGHT ON SILVER
While the future of the automobile may be clouded (the ubiquitous family auto may yet be fingered as the No. 1 air polluter), it apparently is gaining a silver lining. Actually, car and van windshield…
DRILLS, DIGGERS, DOZERS AND SUCH
Clearing Drawpoints North Channel Engineering, near Sudbury, Ont., has developed Safe Shot blasting tubes to clear plugged drawpoints. Safe Shot consists of a self-tying, heavy-duty burlap blasting ba…
OLD MINE DUMPS NEVER DIE…
Recycling is nothging new to mining. For some time, opportunists have turned to old mine dumps and tailings for new sources of ore. Abandoned mines are often rejunenated for another go-round at profit…
DON’T JUST SIT THERE
Today, most people share a peculiar “either/or” attitude toward environmental protection; people can be concerned about either the rights of business or protecting the natural environment. Consequentl…
POLITICALLY MISUNDERSTOOD
The following is from a speech by John Larche, past president of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, delivered in Thunder Bay, Ont., in February: Essential to the health of our industr…
FIRE-RESISTANT OILS
In the article “Fire Down Below” (NMM, Feb/90), one case history mentioned was that of a haulage truck which “caught fire because a worn transmission hose leaked and sprayed transmission oil on to the…
ASBESTOS WAR
With the government of Quebec backing it, the Asbestos Institute is appealing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa) ban on the use of asbestos. The full effect of the U.S. ban on importing, m…
PAPUA NEW GUINEA AMONG TOP GOLD PRODUCERS
Papua New Guinea, the West Pacific paradise, is quietly becoming a player to reckon with in the international gold mining scene. It can boast three mines in the top 10 of the world’s biggest annual pr…
IT`S A MAD, MAD WORLD
The following items are offered for your edification or entertainment. Zaire has long been a major copper producer, first under Belgian colonial rule and, since the 1960s, under independent rule. But …