COMINCO AND THE ENVIRONMENT
For more than 60 years, Cominco Ltd. has been a leader in the research and development of environmental technology in the mining, smelting and refining industry. The company pioneered environmental co…
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THE `KISS’ RULE: Avoiding the Complexities of Negotiating and
Some lawyers never use five words if 20 could say the same thing. Some negotiators follow a similar rule: Never frame a simple deal if you can construct something more complex. There is probably some …
CANMET’S R&D MANDATE
The Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) is heavily involved in research and development of products and processes that reduce pollution in its many forms. The agency, a sector of …
THE FAIRVIEW FLOW: A gold mine in Eastern Transvaal represents a
The names Pilgrim’s Rest, Barberton and Murchison Range ring down through South African mining history in the same way as do Kirkland Lake and Cadillac in Canada. These were the first significant gold…
CALENDAR (August 02, 1991)
Aug 18-21, Ottawa, Ont. 30th Annual Conference of Metallurgists & 21st Annual Hydrometallurgical Meeting of CIM. Also featuring Copper ’91 (int’l conference on the economics, mineral processing, extra…
CANADA’S TOP 40 MINING COMPANIES
This is the first of what we plan to be an annual round-up of Canada’s Top 40 mineral producers. But what is it that makes a company a leader in its field? Is the leading mining company the one that p…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES (August 02, 1991)
Weatherhaven Resources, manufacturers of air-transportable camp installations and shelters, has entered into an agency agreement with Carson Pratt Services of Papua New Guinea to provide local sales a…
50 YEARS AGO (August 02, 1991)
PAYMASTER MAKING STEADY ADVANCE Paymaster Consolidated has closed another fiscal year with a record output of bullion and unimpaired ore reserves. Visiting the property, in South Porcupine, Ont. this …
Stranded
A most curious thing happened to me the other day. I was walking along the Lake Ontario shoreline when a bottle with a note inside caught my attention. The contents of the note, I believe, are rather …
CROSS-CUTS
B.C. CLAIM-STAKING ON THE RISE In spite of a general lull in mine exploration across the country, claim-staking has not abated in British Columbia. According to Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, …
GSC studies Newfoundland deposits
The Geological Survey of Canada is studying the occurrence of gold and other deposits in Newfoundland’s Notre Dame Bay area. The focus is on the geochemistry of volcanogenic massive sulphides and the …
View from the West (July 29, 1991)
The Canadian exploration sector is now halfway through a very difficult year. In British Columbia, however, the news is both good and bad. The bad news is that financings of junior mining companies ha…