METALS MARKETS — Metals threatened by subsidies
Reacting to growing unemployment and falling confidence, consumers worldwide are cutting all unessential spending, including metals. Ignoring their consumers and voters, governments, with huge deficit…
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Musto plans 1993 completion of Bajo feasibility study
By the second quarter of 1993, International Musto Explorations (TSE) expects to complete a feasibility study which it hopes will bring the technical and economic potential of the Bajo de la Alumbrera…
GIBRALTAR’S JUST SCRATCHED THE SURFACE: Theory becomes
Gibraltar mine exploration geologist George Barker was mildly optimistic when he hopped into his company pickup on a Saturday morning late in the summer of 1990. He was off to check core from a diamon…
AMERICAN BARRICK BONANZA
When the Spaniards discovered the high-grade orebo Peru and Bolivia they had a name for them — bonanzas — a word that conjures up the prospect of untold riches. The language of their cooler-blooded …
ENERPAC’S POWER WRENCHES
Enerpac’s trademarked Plarad line of hydraulic power wrenches is now available through a worldwide network of dealers. Plarad has two system types: the low profile UKS system for work in tight areas o…
TWO DECADES ON A ROLLERCOASTER
As one of the lowest-grade producers in North America for the past 20 years, the Gibraltar open-pit copper mine has constantly striven to control, and reduce when possible, operating costs. At the out…
MICRON GOLD
The infinitely small particle size of Barrick’s gold, and of other producers on the Carlin trend, is directly attributable to its hot-spring origin. Less well known, the accompanying pyrite (plus up t…
WILD THEORIES
Idon’t get it. When I look at a map of Canada, I see wilderness covering at least three-quarters of its surface. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) sees the “pestilence” of modern civilization everywhere…
PAYBACK”S THE KEY
Williams mine manager Peter Rowlandson probably said it best: “If we can get 5 cents here, 10 cents there, and multiply by two million tonnes, that’s quite an improvement.” And that’s what most mine…
HEAP LEACH
Certain articles appearing in the mainstream American press in recent years will have raised a few eyebrows in metallurgical circles. Namely, references to a new process developed by US researchers fo…
CALENDAR (November 01, 1992)
1993 Jan. 18-20, Ottawa. 1993 Current Activities Forum, Collaboration — the Key to the Future. Contact the Geological Survey of Canada, Susan Mrak, (613) 992-0640. Feb. 21-24, Scottsdale, Arizona. Se…
Inco to cut staff
Mining giant Inco (TSE) will cut its payroll by at least 500 employees through attrition over the next two years, but the company says there will no layoffs from its 9,700-strong primary metals workfo…