High volumes of exports from Chinese tungsten producers are continuing to depress tungsten prices, keeping Canada Tungsten’s (TSE) earnings on a downward spiral. The company suffered a net loss of $2 …
Chicago- based FMC Gold (NYSE) has moved to acquire 100% of Meridian Gold, a unit of Burlington Resources which controls the Royal Mountain King gold mine in California and the advanced Beartrack gold…
Lower zinc prices in the first quarter of 1990 resulted in a 38% earnings drop for Pine Point Mines (TSE). Net earnings for the quarter totalled $14 million ($3.02 per share), compared with $22.5 mill…
Preliminary results from a recent drill program at the Blackdome gold mine near Clinton, B.C., has owner MinVen Gold (TSE) optimistic it may have discovered a new high-grade oreshoot. The encouraging …
Based on a recent feasibility study, the directors of RFC Resource Finance (TSE) have recommended that the Pend Oreille zinc- lead project in Washington State be put into production. The company also …
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US72.75- 4.75 per lb. (Apr. 26, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US82-84 per lb. (Apr. 19, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$4.25-4.35 per lb. (Apr. 26, 1990). CADMIUM: New Y…
It wasn’t the type of crowd Monte Hummel was used to addressing. Gamely, the president of the World Wildlife Fund stood before the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Ca…
A Compact PLC Idec Canada is marketing a compact programmable “logic controller” (PLC) manufactured in Japan. The units, ideal for replacing relay and timer circuits, are being distributed in Canada b…
Distributed control systems (DCS) were introduced in the mid-1970s, according to Isabelle Clauzier and Burton Roberts of B.R.I.C. Systems Integrators, who delivered a paper on the subject at an operat…
I read, with great interest and some dismay the article “Native Miners” by Erik Watt (NMM, Feb/90), which dealt with the involvement of native persons in northern mine operations. I feel their natural…
The following is an excerpt from the plenary session paper presented at the recent maintenance engineering conference held in Sudbury, Ont. The conference was sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Mi…
FREE TRADE OPTIMISM The following is from a speech delivered to the Mineral Development Forum in early December last year in Toronto by Maureen Farrow, a partner of the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Gr…
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