50 Years Ago NICKEL
Recently, Robert Stanley, chairman and president of The International Nickel Co. of Canada, said there are more than 8,000 standard alloys of which some 2,300 contain nickel. Such is the broad field i…
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50 Years Ago BIG GAIN IN GOLD IN ONTARIO
Ontario gold production made a gain of $8,156,735 in the first nine months of 1938, compared with the first three quarters of 1937. The amount produced in the period was $75,220,595. The Porcupine bel…
50 Years Ago INSPIRATION MAKES NEW GOLD FIND
Another new find in the Northwest Territories appeared on the records this week with the report of a promising gold discovery by prospectors of Inspiration Mining & Development Co. The find was at a p…
Suppliers’ Notes (December 01, 1988)
Peacock Inc. of Mississauga, Ont., has been appointed the Canadian distributor for Air-Maze filtration products. Air-Maze is a Cleveland, Ohio-based manufacturer that developed the first oil bath filt…
Profile FIT TO LEAD Corona Corp.’s Peter Steen
Peter Steen’s working day starts in the pre-dawn usually, but at a leisurely pace. About four or five o’clock, the lights go on in the condominium he shares with his wife Norma and 20-year-old son alo…
THE RISE OF CORONA
The Corona Corp. of today is the Tcreation of two very different people : Murray Pezim, Canada’s best-known and most flamboyant promoter, and Ned Goodman, a financier with practically no public profi…
EAST MEETS WESTRAY
About 700 m below the Trans Canada Highway, just west of the sleepy little town of Stellarton, N.S., four continuous mining mach ines will be cutting away at a 6.5-m-thick coal seam some time in the y…
On The Move (December 01, 1988)
Dr Raj Singhal of the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (canmet) has been awarded a District Proficiency Medal by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Singhal, one of Canada’…
Cross-Cuts ARCTIC ANXIETY
Climatologists have been building sophisticated computer models for several years now, trying to predict the effect the exhaust from cars and industrial processes will have on the global climate in ye…
Editor’s Note LEAN AND CLEAN
An advertising billboard recently featured a picture of a muddied 4-wheel drive vehicle that had been put through its off-the-road paces. The caption read: “A face only a mudder could love.” Which was…
50 Years Ago EMERGENCY POWERS AN IRRITANT
The emergency powers under which U.S. President Roosevelt, if he desires, can revalue the American dollar down to 50 from its present 59.1 mark, expire June 30. The Wall Street Journal editorially d…
What’s New THE FINNISH LINE
Normet Canada Another Finnish mining equipment manufacturer has set up shop in Canada. The latest company to be welcomed to Sudbury, Ont. is Normet Industries Canada, whose Finn parent has manufacture…