Law HEMLO RULING: ‘MUST READING’
Since November, 1986, the mining and investment industries have been awaiting the Ontario Court of Appeal judgment in the case involving Lac Minerals and International Corona Resources. Well, it is he…
News
50 Years Ago DECEMBER, 1937 STRAW LAKE DRIFTS IN HIGH GRADE
Drifting to date on the No. 1 shoot east on the 425-ft level at Straw Lake Beach Mines shows it to be of considerably higher grade than the same shoot on the 300-ft horizon where it showed an average …
Cross-Cuts NOVA SOCTIA LEADS
The Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy’s method of mineral claim- staking (commonly known as paper-staking) will likely form the basis of a new, streamlined system of claim-staking for the cou…
Ore Horizons GRENVILLE POLYMETALLICS
The Montauban and Grand Calumet deposits are geologically similar lead-zinc-gold- silver deposits occurring in the Grenville Province. The lithological, mineralogical and economic similarities are str…
COST-CUTTER
Copper was one of the last metals to recover from the economic recession. But whether today’s higher prices will continue is a big question. Even so, the red metal is finally attracting some attention…
50 Years Ago DECEMBER, 1937 BIG TONNAGE IRON DEPOSITS INDICATED IN
During the past season, exploration of the large mining concession in Labrador, held by Labrador Mining and Exploration Co., has resulted in the discovery of two iron ore deposits believed to have pos…
DECADES OF CHANGE
Ten years ago, at the Exploration ’77 meeting in Ottawa, Allan Spector and Wilfred Parker presented a paper entitled Computer Compilation and Interpretation of Geophysical Data. At that time, the geop…
LETTERS New Refinery
I have just read your article “Very Refined” in the September, 1987, edition. This article reports on “Canada’s private precious metal refiners — Degussa Canada in Burlington, Ont…. and Johnson Ma…
COST-CUTTER The History of Highland Valley Copper
Discovered in the early 1960s by Egil Lorntzsen, the Lornex orebody was the first porphyry copper deposit developed in British Columbia’s Highland Valley. Shortly thereafter, the larger and higher gra…
Cross-Cuts PATIENCE PAYS
A Reuters report out of Darwin, Australia says a 62-year-old prospector who has been “scratching away for years” with a pick and shovel about 1,000 km south of the city has found a vein of almost pure…
Cross-Cuts QUINTETTE’S COAL SHUTTLE
When Quintette Coal decided to truck-haul coal from its newly opened Shikano pit to the process plant three kilometres away, the haulage trucks had to cross a public access road. For safety and effici…
What’s New Two New Excavators
Two new hydraulic excavators, with increased power ratings and lift capacities have been introduced by Caterpillar to replace two older models. Powered by an 86-kW engine, the 215c lc excavator replac…