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A discovery by Inco Ltd. (TSE) geologists in 1981 of a gold deposit lying about 60 miles north of La Sarre, Que., recently became a producing mine (Golden Pond East), a positive sign for the Casa Bera…

Contrary to what appeared in The Northern Miner Sept 26, QPX Minerals’ QR deposit has reserves of one million tons at 0.2 oz gold per ton.

Recovery of gold from cyanide leach solutions can be carried out by zinc precipitation, carbon-in-pulp (CIP) and resin-in-pulp methods. CIP has been generally favored as the method in recently constru…

In recent years there has been a great deal of money invested in gold mines — new project financing, mergers, acquisitions and the like. Normally, newspaper reports refer only to the size and financi…

Although modern exploration interest in the Mishibishu area came about as a sort of `overflow’ from the Hemlo gold rush in the early 1980s, it was only until recent discoveries that major companies ha…

Much of mine maintenance these days is based on the idea you can predict when a machine will fail. The reasoning goes like this: If you know when a component is going to fail and it costs less to repl…

The new Komatsu Dresser Co. of Libertyville, Ill., has elected a 6-member management committee. They are: John Murphy, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Dresser Inc.; Masao Tanaka, pr…

Shaft sinking at the Astoria property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., has reached a depth of about 900 ft, between the sixth and seventh levels, Karl Glackmeyer, president of Yorbeau Resources (TSE), told T…

Measuring stresses in hard rock has always been a big problem for rock mechanics engineers. Dr Gerhard Herget should know. The research scientist at the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology…

Vancouver market watchers were buoyed by news that bargain hunters were out in full force in Toronto, generating a rebound among otherwise sound issues that had been battered by gold’s drop below $400…

Continuing exploration drilling by Placer Dome US is going on in an area of several square miles located 6 to 8 miles north of Nome, Alaska in ongoing evaluation of lode gold deposits discovered by As…

Helping to enliven a directionless trading week on the exchange was news that MSV Resources of Montreal will be taking on the Eastmain gold project in northern Quebec by itself, subject to various app…