HIGH-TECH OPERATIONS — THE MANLESS MILL
Distributed control systems (DCS) were introduced in the mid-1970s, according to Isabelle Clauzier and Burton Roberts of B.R.I.C. Systems Integrators, who delivered a paper on the subject at an operat…
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NATIVE TALENTS
I read, with great interest and some dismay the article “Native Miners” by Erik Watt (NMM, Feb/90), which dealt with the involvement of native persons in northern mine operations. I feel their natural…
FREE TRADE OPTIMISM
FREE TRADE OPTIMISM The following is from a speech delivered to the Mineral Development Forum in early December last year in Toronto by Maureen Farrow, a partner of the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Gr…
RUNNING ON EMPTY
Not long ago, the larger Canadian gold mining companies were content to report two to three year’s worth of reserves at their individual mines. The practice, I was recently told by a mining veteran, b…
A HIGH-TECH HORROR STORY
In March, 1989, a miner was killed at Noranda’s Lyon Lake mine in Ontario when a load-haul-dump machine (LHD), controlled by a radio frequency remote control, scooped him up and drove over a 24-metre …
LAC MINERALS’ MACASSA MILL
For most of his working life, Macassa’s mill superintendent, Len Robinson, worked with Merrill-Crowe gold recovery systems. He was a stranger to carbon-in-pulp (cip) technology when it was incorporate…
HIGH-TECH UNDERGROUND MANLESS MINES; As the industry shifts to
The Boy Scouts’ motto, “Be prepared,” is equally applicable to today’s mining industry as more and more companies struggle to adapt to new trends. Four years ago, the industry began a shift toward so-…
MINING THE BIG BREAK
A disquieting number of rock bursts and the usual creaks and groans of a deep mine once were the daily fare for miners at lac Mineral’s Macassa mine, near Kirkland Lake, Ont. They still contend with r…
AND THERE’S STILL MORE
The 04 break (in underground Tnomenclature) or Kirkland Lake Main break (as it’s more widely known) has been the source of gold ore for Macassa for the past 57 years. It is the same break that nurture…
SUPPLIER’S NOTES (May 01, 1990)
A contract has been awarded by the International Magnesium Association to the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) for a 4-year project to study the fundamental aspects of the corr…
Gold funds as of Apr. 24
MVP BGR Central Capital Net value $11.56% %$5.85% $0.38% Price $9.75% %$6.125% $0.22% Discount 15.66% %4.7% 42.1% Value $68,843,115 $103,048,838 N/A…
Toronto Stock Exchange Market free fall ends as Goodman ties up (April 30, 1990)
After a week long free fall caused by sky high interest rates and falling profits, the Toronto market finally recovered a small amount of lost ground today, April 25. But investors who are obviously t…