The high grade Ungava nickel properties held directly and indirectly by Falconbridge Ltd. are becoming of increasing importance following the surge in nickel prices. In a move seen as an effort to fur…
A group of companies within the Noramco Mining Corp. fold have reported encouraging drill resaults from their properties near Fort Hope, Ont. At the Cadman Lake project, shared equally by partners Pur…
Ensuring that a hoisting plant is safe and will run when it is needed requires more than the mandatory tests. The true price is constant vigilance aimed at detecting potential problems. Aware of the c…
Byron Creek Collieries, a unit of Esso Resources Canada, operates the Coal Mountain mine in southeast- ern British Columbia. The mine, about 32 km south of Sparwood, B.C., supplies bituminous coal to …
Noranda Inc. had sales of approximately $6.2 billion in 1986. Although Noranda sells many different kinds of products to many countries around the world, the biggest customer for its goods is the Unit…
More and more, it would seem, Canada’s coal industry is in a period of major transition. The world shortage of coal in the late-1970s and early-1980s has been replaced with difficult years of oversupp…
With a history of more than 75 years of continuous operations, Luscar Ltd. is one of western Canada’s best-established and most diversified coal companies. It operates five modern surface mines to pr…
N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Feb — — 110.80 — Mar 103.80 …
A new, pocket-size, full-featured electronic blaster’s guide is now available from Du Pont Canada’s Applied Technology & Blasting Services group. It is a programmable 16K computer that contains nine s…
Fifty-seven per cent of our gold mines have developed out of properties which had been abandoned or became otherwise dormant. Only 36 1/2 % have been de veloped directly and con tinuously from the ori…
An initial bulk sample from Huldra Silver’s Treasure Mountain property east of Hope, B.C., has netted the company $344,265. The 407-ton sample, obtained from surface mining of the C vein, was processe…
A new 480-page occupational safety and health catalogue is available from Toronto, Ont.-based Safety House of Canada. Safety House, one of Canada’s major suppliers of safety equipment, medical supplie…
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