Can nations conduct war without gold? Is gold an essential metal when conflicts rage? There are those who have observed Japan and Italy waging war with little gold. They have seen Germany arm and thre…
Thanks to a new grinding concept in the form of rubber magnetic mill linings, considerable savings in energy and grinding media consumption can now be achieved. “In some cases, it (the magnetic liner)…
Open-cut methods may be applied for mining the entire granite mass lying between the east and west gabbro contacts at the Athona property in the Goldfields section of the Lake Athabaska area in northe…
The mine hoisting fraternity in Canada is warming to the idea that micro-computers can control hoisting systems. Noranda has gone the computer control route at its Geco mine, and the company is in the…
The main orebody at East Malartic Mines is shaping up into one of the major gold deposits in the country, judging by results of testing on the first three levels. Calculations show that the orebody ma…
The Bousquet #2 stratiform gold deposit, 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and 2 km east of the Bousquet #1 deposit, has ore reserves of 7.1 million tonnes grading 6.4 g of gold per tonne. The deposi…
Backfilling methods are certainly garnering plenty of attention these days. At Kidd Creek, the use of fly ash as a partial substitute for mor e expensive cement in backfill has been used successfully….
You may be in for a big surprise if your next drilling project in the Canadian Shield hits a pocket of “salty” brine. That is, you may very well find gold nuggets in that brine. One such nugget, conta…
About 2 billion years ago when this planet was a chilling, uninhabitable place, a pre-Cambrian stream laden with uranium-rich gravels emptied into a lake or inland sea just north of what is today the …
** A 3-IN-1 PUMP ** Toyo Pumps North America is selling a new pump that incorporates a diaphragm, hose and piston or plunger. Unlike conventional piston/plunger pumps, where pumping product enters the…
In the January, 1988, issue of The Northern Miner Magazine on page 64, there appeared a picture with the caption “Prospecting the horse-drawn way in New Brunswick.” This picture was taken at a small c…
Nothing gives mining a poorer public image in this country than deaths that occur on the job. When they occur, mining fatalities are often played prominently on radio and television and in newspapers …
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