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…
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50 YEARS AGO PROPOSE QUARRYING AT ATHONA PROPERTY
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…
LETTERS IN THE PICTURE
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…
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…
AUTOMATED HOISTS
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 PANEL OPERATION
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 DENSE FILL PROJECT
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….
CORE SHACK BOUSQUET #2
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Editor’s Note SAFETY FIRST
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 …