Work-related injury and illness not only cause an unacceptable level of pain and suffering, but the compensation costs, on average, amount to 4% of payroll. In 1991, the Ontario Workers Compensation B…
Political fallout is already evident in Halifax and Ottawa following an explosion in the Westray coal mine at Plymouth, N.S., that killed 15 miners instantly and left another 11 missing. A methane gas…
Jordan Ethans appointed director.
In your guest column “Geostatistics or voodoo science?” (T.N.M., April 20/92), Jan Merks advocates the new “grade-squared partition technique” as a more precise and realistic approach to reserve estim…
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame has a new chairman. George Miller, president of the Mining Association of Canada, replaces Maurice Brown, who has chaired the Hall’s board of directors since the Hall’…
Exercising its ownership position in Central Crude (TSE), Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) moved to gain control of the board of directors at the junior’s annual meeting in Toronto and operation of the company….
May 12 May 11 May 8 May 7 May 6 High Low Composite”300″3427.89 3427.23 3374.43 3362.90 3361.30 4009.47 3009.91 Metals&Minerals 3089.15 3069.33 2995.50 2985.60 2967.75 3453.06 2502.63 Integrated Mines3…
Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $334.75 – $2.00 Silver* $ 4.08 + $0.01 Platinum* $352.80 + $0.15 Nickel** $ 3.31 – $0.04 Lead** $ 0.24 $0.00 Copper $ 1.00 + $0.01 Zinc $ 0.61 – $0.02 Courtesy of Scotia…
Practically everyone knows everyone in the Canadian drilling industry, and that was clearly evident at the 49th annual convention of the Canadian Diamond Drilling Association (CDDA) staged here recent…
No two holes are drilled exactly alike and careful planning is the key to any hole completion, say Noble Larsen and Percy Wicklund in a paper titled “Drilling the Hawaiian scientific observation holes…
With the payment of US$1.75 million plus one million common shares of Amax Gold (NYSE), Amax recently exercised its option to earn a 62.5% interest in the Haile property from owner Piedmont Mining (NA…
A $600,000 drill program funded by KWG Resources (ME) began recently on Horne Fault Mines’ (TSE) Lavoie Lake copper property in northwestern Ontario. KWG has the option to earn a 60% stake in a 96-uni…
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