DIAMONDS:
Diamondiferous kimberlites, lamproites and related rocks have been recorded in the West Greenland block of Archaean rock. GGU Open File Series 91/2 documents 500 such occurrences between latitudes 60d…
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GOLD (January 01, 1993)
Gold: The Skaergaard intrusion of East Greenland is probably the best known occurrence. However, GGU geologists have found gold mineralization in the more traditional greenstone belts of the Nuussuaq …
GREENLAND CONTACTS:
Erik Andersen, P. Eng., Senior Minerals Engineer. Andersen is no stranger to Canadian mining, having spent most of his life in Canada, most recently as mine manager at the Magnacon mine in Ontario. Ad…
HISTORY OF THE ROCKS
Greenland is the world’s largest island. It covers 2,186,00 sq. km. The vast inland ice blankets roughly 80% of the total area. The surface geology can only be studied in the ice-free zone, as much as…
A shakeout
Tom Peters, a U.S. management guru and author of In Search of Excellence, was quoted recently in the daily press as saying, “dull, timid, middle managers will be the most endangered corporate species…
Mining booster Mort Brown retiring
For a person whose burning ambition after high school was to forge a career in forestry, M.R. (Mort) Brown has done well for himself — in mining. At 80, The Northern Miner’s soon-to-retire publisher …
Retirement party set for Jan. 21
Friends and associates of M.R. (Mort) Brown will honor the retiree at a party Jan. 21, 1993, at the Ontario Club and Engineers’ Club (recently merged), fifth floor, Commerce Court South, downtown Toro…
ON THE LEVEL — Carrying aboriginals costly
For a government teetering on bankruptcy, Ottawa keeps right on spending like a drunken sailor. And I’m not referring to that asinine squandering of $4.3 billion for 50 of the world’s most sophisticat…
Russian conference invites papers
Organizers of an international symposium on complex ores utilization, which will be held in Saint Petersburg May 10-20, 1994, are inviting submissions of papers. Topics include ore dressing, hydrometa…
PEOPLE — SWAY RESOURCES
John Carson appointed president and director; William Yahnke and Edward Carson appointed directors.
PEOPLE — IMCO RESOURCES
J. Simpson appointed director.
Teck subsidiary buys Balmer mine
A wholly owned subsidiary of Teck (TSE), Elkview Coal Corp., has completed the purchase of the Balmer coal mine in the Elk River Valley of southern British Columbia. The purchase price includes a cash…