SUPPLIERS’ NOTES National Seal Co.
Galesburg, Ill.-based National Seal Co. has announced a $6.3-million, 2-phase capital expenditure program to boost manufacturing capacity. Featured is the world’s largest flat sheet extruder of hdpe g…
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Profile TWO TESTERS
William Bondar and Malcolm Clegg chuckle about it now, but the time their Whitehorse assay lab mixed up separate core samples from a customer was really no laughing matter. The samples went into a dry…
ON THE MOVE (December 01, 1987)
The new president of Brampton, Ont.-based Marubeni Construction Machinery Canada is Masayuki (Mike) Kataoka. He replaces N. (Bill) Watanube who returns to Tokyo, Japan as deputy general manager of the…
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 New Rock Breakers
Three new hydraulic rock breakers rated at 200-, 250- and 500 ft-lb are now available from Teledyne Canada Mining Products in Thornbury, Ont. The largest breaker, called the tb-180, delivers 850 blows…
What’s New Battery Charger
A new charging unit for recharging battery-powered mining equipment is now available from Rebuilders Inc. of Fairmont, W. Va. The skid-mounted model 1,300 charger operates on 480/575 volts ac. The cha…
What’s New Pump has Low Operating Cost
A new high-chrome iron centrifugal process pump for moving abrasive slurries has been introduced by Allis- Chalmers of Milwaukee, Wis. Called the 1,200 Series pump, it requires about 50% less time to …
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Pandick Inc.
Norgraphics-Pandick, Canada’s leading international financial printer, has announced that its U.S. partner, Pandick Inc., of New York, the world’s largest financial printer, has signed a joint-ventur…
What’s New Conveyor Scale
Canadian Scale of Sudbury, Ont. is marketing a new electronic device that measures the amount of material on a conveyor belt with an accuracy of 95% to 98%. Called Kilo-wate, the unit measures the ele…
What’s New Dependable Assay Furnaces
Williams & Wilson of Scarborough, Ont., which has been manufacturing furnaces for nearly 50 years, has made a number of technical improvements to its assay furnaces. The company’s latest furnaces are …