50 YEARS AGO LAKE DUFAULT ADDS SECOND DRILL
Lake Dufault Mines has moved the second diamond drill on to its property adjoining Waite Amulet in order to broaden the ore search close to the scene of Waite Amulet’s spectacular drill intersections …
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Exploration: What’s New DOWN-HOLE PROBES
The objective of geophysical exploration from boreholes is to indicate direction and distance to promising targets. To improve the possibilities for 3-dimensional interpretation of the surroundings, a…
Open-Pit Mining: What’s New CONVEYING POWER
One of Canada’s foremost technology watchdogs has predicted that the surface mines of the 1990s will be so dependent on computer-based technology that manpower will be reduced to one-third of current …
UNDERGROUND WHAT’S NEW HIGH-SPEED MUCKING
Diesel load-haul-dump machines (better known as LHDs or simply scoops) revolutionized underground base metals mining in the early 1960s. Their main advantage was the flexibility they offered. In the l…
Cross-Cuts GOLDEN BUNGLE
Everything was quiet around the Delnite mine property on the night of June 2, 1950. The staff from the gold refinery office had long since cleared out and called it a day. Not 50 yards away in a house…
SUPPLIERS” NOTES
Joy Technologies of Kitchener, Ont., has booked an order valued in excess of $12 million for the supply of 10 electrostatic precipitators to Chemetics International of Toronto. The units will be inclu…
DRILLING: WHAT”S NEW WATER-JET DRILLS
With financial assistance from the National Research Council, a small, publicly listed industrial research company in Toronto is aggressively pursuing Canada’s hard-rock drilling and bolting market. T…
LETTERS Interpreting Failure
Your article “The Value of Failure” by William Stanley in the February issue says a great deal about Canadian business and the Canadian banking system. The previous bank manager of the unnamed bank i…
LAW DIRECTORS BEWARE
As a director or officer of a corporation carrying on business in Ontario, you might not know that you could be liable to a fine in the order of several tens of thousands of dollars and/or imprisonmen…
THE PANEL MILL
The Panel mill was rehabilitated in 1979. At the outset, problems cropped up with the old mill; specifically, in the pumping system (which had to be upgraded) and with contaminants in the ore. This la…
Aster investigates two gold showings
During recent exploration work, Aster Exploration (ME) discovered two encouraging gold indications on its Langloiserie property located southwest of Chibougamau, Que. The first was uncovered at a dept…
Silbak, Pioneer merger
The effective date for the amalgamation of Silbak Premier Mines (VSE) and Pioneer Metals Corp. (TSE) was set for May 11, with the amalgamated company trading as Pioneer Metals Corp. on both the Vancou…