ON THE MOVE MINER ENTERPRISES
Ronald Sprainis has been named vice-president of engineering of the W. H. Miner Division of Miner Enterprises, based in Geneva, Ill. Sprainis joined Miner in 1974 and recently served as vice-president…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
ON THE MOVE INSTANTEL INC.
Brian Martin has been appointed vice-president and general manager of Instantel Inc., based in Kanata, Ont. He will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s operations including new product dev…
Suppliers’ Notes BATTELLE
The R&D firm Battelle (Columbus, Ohio, division) has called for the continuation of a 6-year-old program of coal utilization technology. The international program will cover coal-handling technologies…
Suppliers’ Notes AIR CANADA
Air Ontario of London, Ont., Austin Airways of Timmins and Air Canada are to form an alliance in an attempt to improve air transportation services throughout Ontario. Pursuing this objective, both Air…
Suppliers’ Notes CB Pak
CB Pak and its subsidiary Twinpak Inc. have announced the purchase of 49% of the common stock of Bulk-Lift Canada of Hawkesbury, Ont. Bulk-Lift produces flexible intermediate bulk containers and circu…
Suppliers’ Notes QUANTECH CONSULTING
A new company, Quantech Consulting, opened its Toronto headquarters in June, 1986, to fill the need for geophysical contracting and consulting on a worldwide basis. Services include underground minin…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– ATHABASCA GOLD FINDS APPEAR HIGHLY
What appears to be important new gold discoveries have been made on Norite Bay, Lake Athabasca. The finds were made just before freeze-up, but sufficient information has already been secured to indica…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY 1937– BASE METAL PRICES SOAR AGAIN ON
On Tuesday came the announcement that the copper production restriction agreement had been abandoned. This means producers in Africa, Chile and other countries, which are parties to the agreement, wil…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– LEITCH GOLD MOVES INTO PRODUCTION
The first of the 1937 crop of gold producers in Canada made its bow on January 10 with the turning over of the new mill at the Leitch Gold Mines property, pioneer operator of the new Beardmore-Sand Ri…
Suppliers’ Notes WOODWAY RESOURCES
Woodway Resources of Toronto has purchased the assets of a private, numbered company.
I, Robot
Standing in the yard of Tamrock’s expanding manufacturing plant in Tampere, Finland, James McCormack, a project mine engineer for Placer Development rolls his eyes at a computerized jumbo being demons…
Letters Seeing Things
During the last few years i have had the opportunity to work with a number of young geologists from whom I have learned that geological mapping or core-logging is an illusion — an illusion in the sen…