WHAT’S NEW Electronic Diesel Engine Control
Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors and Delco Electronics have developed a new electronicunit fuel injection and engine management system. Features of this second-generation system inclu…
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A BREAKNECK PACE JOE MANN
It is sometimes said that the best place to look for a new mine is an old mine — and the Joe Mann gold operation in Chibougamau, Que., is a good example. The mine has operated twice before, under var…
50 Years Ago January, 1938 RYAN BROTHERS MAKE FINE DEAL
The unusually high grade character of the gold ore disclosed on the Ryan Gold Mines property on the Yellowknife River in the Northwest Territories is indicated by the deal which was made between the o…
WHAT’S NEW Bigger Buckets on Cat Loaders
Four new models of Caterpillar wheel loaders deliver increased horsepower and rimpull for improved performance, over four former models, the company reports. Larger-capacity buckets with bolt- on edge…
A BREAKNECK PACE K.L. Tailings
Production was scheduled to have started in mid-November on a tailings retreatment project in Kirkland Lake, Ont. Gold mine tailings have been deposited in nine separate tailings areas here over the p…
A BREAKNECK PACE Dumagami
For Dumagami Mines’ gold property near Cadillac, Que., two key drill holes finally put to rest any question that this property had the potential to become a producer. The first hole, at a vertical dep…
A BREAKNECK PACE Murray Brook
Construction could begin by next May on an open-pit gold and silver mine, 45 miles west of Bathurst, N.B. The federal government has kicked in $5.4 million in the form of loan insurance to help cover …
Editor’s Note AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD
Elliot Lake was a boom town in 1956, the impetus for which was essentially the United States’ need for a secure supply of the yellow powder that had so convincingly and tragically ended the Second Wor…
A BREAKNECK PACE Isle Dieu
The official opening of Noranda Minerals Inc.’s Isle Dieu mine, near Matagami, Que, is scheduled for September. Discovered in May, 1985, the rich zinc deposit, grading 17.78% zinc, 1.03% copper, 2.34…
50 Years Ago January 1938 LAMAQUE TAKING UP SLACK OF TECK- HUGHES
Lamaque Gold Mines is running neck and neck with Teck-Hughes and, during 1938, the new mine may overtake the parent organization in production rate and earning power. That’s what is revealed in a comp…
Profile ENGINEERING A TRADITION
He is an affable, part-time hobby farmer from southern Ontario, a tall, trim man with a greying pate and an avuncular air. In appearance and manner he seems just too nice and easygoing to be running o…
A BREAKNECK PACE Golden Bear
The rugged Dease Lake area of northern B.C. will soon be the site of a new gold mine when the Golden Bear property, owned by North American Metals and Chevron Canada Resources, starts producing the ye…