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Golf anyone? Tennis? Maybe commandeer one of Key Lake’s seven fishing boats and troll for lake trout? Or lift weights, shoot pool, play raquetball, curl, sweat it out in the sauna or choose sides for …

When talking to a lawyer, you might notice the lawyer uses words that are common in everyday speech, but somehow, when uttered by him or her, they take on a strange meaning that may or may not be simi…

The article in the March, 1989, issue on the Caribou mine of New Brunswick, gives a wrong impression on the discovery of the Caribou deposit. It says: “Cavalero, an American geologist from Maine, was…

A new exploration tool is being used to profile structures 12 km down inside the lithosphere. By L. Mayrand, A. G. Green, C. Hubert, S. L. Jackson, J. N. Ludden, B. Milkereit, R. H. Sutcliffe, and P….

As Canada’s miners tackle narrower vein deposits, they’ll need locomotives to haul the ore to the shaft in the mines that opt for track mining. But while locomotives have been around a long time, few …

The Key Lake mine, on the south eastern rim of the Athabasca Sandstone Basin in northern Saskatchewan, has been producing uranium since 1983. The first of two high grade open pits has been exhausted b…

In many respects, seismic reflection profiling is like listening to a voice echoed from a cliff. For land seismic surveying, sound is either generated by explosions or by powerful radio-controlled vib…

The end of the gold boom (a boom which caused annual world production rates to nearly double in the past nine years) is not yet in sight. World gold production in 1938, according to preliminary estima…

Harry Oakes, staker and original president of Lake Shore Mines, Limited, and pioneer engineer-prospector of the Kirkland Lake district, added another distinction to his already long list when he was c…

Geologists from Laurentian University and the University of Toronto will use a $160,000 provincial grant to study the structural geology of the Sudbury Irruptive, a body of intrusive rocks related to …

The mineral deposits division of the Geological Association of Canada presented its two top awards during the association’s annual meeting held here during May. Gilles Allard, professor of geology at …

A private placement worth $735,000, involving 3,675,000 shares at 20 cents each, has been finalized, Abitibi Metal Mines (ME) reports. The funds will go towards exploration work carried out on the Jol…