Magnacon shows-gold bearing veins
Surface exploration of the east Magnacon property, located west of Wawa, Ont., has unearthed several rich gold showings, partners Flanagan McAdam Resources (TSE), Muscocho Exlorations (TSE) and Windar…
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Vancouver Stock Exchange Still slow and sluggish
Patience has become a real (but unwelcome) virtue among Vancouver brokers these days. Placing bets as to exactly when this long-running (since Oct ’87) bear market will end has become a popular pastim…
McAdam Resources aims to be back in business soon
Back in June of this year, McAdam Resources (TSE) discovered that a surface crown pillar over an old, mined-out stope at its McWatters property near here was only about 7 ft thick. Worse still, it fou…
Octan plans to mine former Terra assets
Calgary-based Octan Resources (ASE) has agreed to acquire Terra Mines’ (TSE) mill and silver properties at Camsell River in the Northwest Territories, the company said recently. Subject to regulatory …
Profile ALL THE RIAGHT MOVES
Toronto’s fashionable Yorkville district is the last place you would expect to find a down-to-earth mining man. The chic ambience and elegant designer boutiques seem more geared towards the leggy, asp…
USER-FRIENDLY EXPLORATION
The mining industry has been intrigued by the application of computers for many years. In fact, from artificial intelligence systems designed to run “smarter smelters” (see The Northern Miner Magazine…
Specs WANNA RAISE?
When you want to ventilate the deepest levels of a mine or when you’re in charge of mining the highest-grade uranium deposit in the world, you’re pretty well limited to one kind of machine to get the …
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Over the nex t few years, Canada’s 70 gold producing mines will be joined by at least 10 major new producers and a handful of smaller ones. If gold prices remain high ($530(C) per oz at presstime), th…
Maintenance PREDICTING PROBLEMS
Mining companies have been traditionally slow in accepting or adopting new tech nology for predictive maintenance. I helped with the installation of such technology at the first planning and schedulin…
PGM PERFECT
The six platinum group metals (PGMs) are elements that possess unique chemical and physical characteristics. Members of the group have been in high demand by jewellers since their discovery in ancient…
BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
Busy Little Bacteria II: One way to deal with ores which contain gold trapped in the crystal lattice of arsenopyrite is to feed it to microscopic bacteria. These little microbes oxidize the sulphides,…
TONS OF FORTUNE
The size of the winnings has yet to be determined. But at the very least, the McCoy/Cove gold-silver deposit in north-central Nevada illustrates how a successful exploration program can boost the over…