A BREAKNECK PACE Star Lake
The Star Lake gold mine represents the first such mine in Saskatchewan in more than 40 years. Although small in both reserves and milling rate, the high grade operation combined with relatively simple…
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A BREAKNECK PACE Winston Lake
Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…
A BREAKNECK PACE Casa Berardi
Production is slated for August, 1988, at Les Mines Casa Berardi, the name given to the first new gold mine in this camp, which opened up only seven years ago. That’s when Inco and Golden Knight disco…
THE FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICAN GOLD
Gold’s dominance as the preferred target of exploration and development over the past few years has resulted in a sharp increase in gold production for many countries outside of South Africa. This is …
A BREAKNECK PACE Giant Yellowknife
Canada’s third tailings re-treatment project is scheduled to start up in Yellowknife this May. Between June 15 and Aug 28 last year, owner Giant Yellowknife Mines ran a pilot plant operation to find t…
A BREAKNECK PACE Kremzar
That Canamax Resources is bringing yet another mine into production hardly rates as news anymore. True news would be that this aggressive producer/explorer isn’t cutting the ceremonial ribbon on anoth…
A BREAKNECK PACE Namew Lake
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting has adopted what President Lloyd Nilsen calls a “black-earth” exploration policy, which means all anomalies that turn up during airborne geophysical work will be tested by…
WHAT’S NEW Borescope
A visual inspection tool designed to provide accurate diagnosis of problems inside engines, transmissions and final drives on a variety of mining equipment is now available from Lenox Instrument of Tr…
Debunking a myth HOW TO TELL THE JUNIORS FROM THE SENIORS
The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …
Cross-Cuts BASE METAL RESERVES DECLINING
It turns out that 1981 might have been a watershed for base metals. Up until then, Canada’s national reserves of the base metals had been on a steady upward path. According to figures compiled and p…
Maintenance LIFELINE OF THE MINE
Last fall, 20 senior supervisors from Noranda Inc.’s operations across the country went through an intensive hoist maintenance course. For three days in Toronto and another day in Montreal, the group …
A BREAKNECK PACE Puffy Lake
Gold production from Pioneer Metals Corp.’s new Puffy Lake mine, near Flin Flon, Man., was scheduled to reach 75% of design capacity by the end of 1987. By the end of this year, the $18-million underg…