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Golf anyone? Tennis? Maybe commandeer one of Key Lake’s seven fishing boats and troll for lake trout? Or lift weights, shoot pool, play raquetball, curl, sweat it out in the sauna or choose sides for …

In many respects, seismic reflection profiling is like listening to a voice echoed from a cliff. For land seismic surveying, sound is either generated by explosions or by powerful radio-controlled vib…

Harry Oakes, staker and original president of Lake Shore Mines, Limited, and pioneer engineer-prospector of the Kirkland Lake district, added another distinction to his already long list when he was c…

The sending of British capital into Canadian mining and other enterprises is being affected by the suggestion of British authorities that Old Country brokers and bankers should not assist in the expo…

Mine operators at Inco’s copper/nickel mine in Thompson, Man., have a talent for innovation in more than one field. Even etymology is within their sphere of expertise, having invented a word of their …

The article in the March, 1989, issue on the Caribou mine of New Brunswick, gives a wrong impression on the discovery of the Caribou deposit. It says: “Cavalero, an American geologist from Maine, was…

As Canada’s miners tackle narrower vein deposits, they’ll need locomotives to haul the ore to the shaft in the mines that opt for track mining. But while locomotives have been around a long time, few …

All uranium-bearing minerals contain radium, the radioactive product of uranium decay. Radium itself decays and gives off the chemically inert, radioactive gas radon. Radon can percolate out of rocks …

Wth the help of a computer graphic technique called “solid modeling,” mining engineers now can combine the accuracy of drill sections and plans with the visual effect of Plexiglas models to produce a …

Uranium mining has a distinct set Uof problems. In fact, its very disUtinctiveness has led Saskatchewan’s mine-operators to adopt a public relations drive. But first, the question of high grade. For …

George Peebles has a mining assignment that ambitious uranium miners would give their eye teeth for. Cigar Lake is the pre-eminent technical challenge in uranium mining today. The deposit is highly ra…

The Key Lake mine, on the south eastern rim of the Athabasca Sandstone Basin in northern Saskatchewan, has been producing uranium since 1983. The first of two high grade open pits has been exhausted b…