CROSS CUTS Heroes and Leaders
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
ON THE MOVE NORCAST INC.
The Calgary-based mining equipment manufacturer Norcast Inc. has appointed Mark Pipke to regional sales manager. Pipke has held senior positions in the beneficiation area as well as special project w…
ON THE MOVE PALL INDUSTRIAL HYDRAULICS CORP.
John Kuzina has been appointed vice-president of industrial sales for Pall Industrial Hydraulics Corp., based in East Hills, N.Y. He joined Pall Corp. in 1983 as market sales specialist and recently s…
Suppliers’ Notes NCR CORP.
A 3-year agreement has been signed, naming NCR Corp. as the nationally authorized hardware service vendor for Jonas & Erickson’s end-users operating on IBM hardware as well as other peripheral equipme…
Suppliers’ Notes ARMCO CANADA
Armco Canada and Stelco Inc. have announced the construction of a new manufacturing plant in Kamloops, B.C. — MOLY-COP Canada. Designed to produce forged, heat-treated grinding balls up to five inch…
Suppliers’ Notes INGERSOLL-RAND CANADA
Ingersoll-Rand Canada of Montreal, Que., has appointed Wajax Industries as its authorized distributor for underground drilling equipment throughout Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
ON THE MOVE DRESSER CONSTRUCTION & MINING EQUIPMENT
Dresser Construction & Mining Equipment’s new vice-president, marketing, for mining machinery products is William Graessle. He will be responsible for product management, field sales and market suppor…
CROSS CUTS An Outsider’s View
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Programmable Controllers
A new generation of programmable controllers has been introduced by Asea Inc. of Saint-Laurent, Que. The MasterPiece 100 family of controllers includes adaptive and pid controllers; logic control; seq…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Beefed Up Excavator
Caterpillar has beefed up its Cat 225 hydraulic excavator. Using a direct- injection Cat 3208 diesel engine rated at 108 kW, engine power has been increased 7%. The additions of a 3.9-tonne counterwei…
Suppliers’ Notes AUTOCLAVE ENGINEERS
Pennsylvania-based Autoclave Engineers is to become the exclusive North American distributor of Maximator hydraulic pumps and gas compressors. Maximator products are used in the mining and petrochemic…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– GRANBY RUSHES PREPARATIONS FOR RE-
In view of the improved market for copper, preparations are being hastened for the resumption of operations at the Granby Consolidated M.S. & P. Co.’s Copper Mountain mine and 2,500-ton concentrator a…