“Over three years’ experience as commissioner, dealing with prospectors, promoters, mine developers and investors has taught me a lot,” John Godfrey says. “It has taught me for one thing that mining f…
A hand-held portable infrared camera is now available from isi Group of Albuquerque, N.M. The unit, called the VideoTherm camera, can give the user actual temperature readouts. The graphics package al…
A new non-nitroglycerin, all-purpose gelatin high explosive has been introduced by Austin Powder of Cleveland, Ohio. Called Helix 75, it is recommended for blasting under wet or dry conditions in eith…
Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors and Delco Electronics have developed a new electronicunit fuel injection and engine management system. Features of this second-generation system inclu…
Lamaque Gold Mines is running neck and neck with Teck-Hughes and, during 1938, the new mine may overtake the parent organization in production rate and earning power. That’s what is revealed in a comp…
The official opening of Noranda Minerals Inc.’s Isle Dieu mine, near Matagami, Que, is scheduled for September. Discovered in May, 1985, the rich zinc deposit, grading 17.78% zinc, 1.03% copper, 2.34…
Pincock, Allen & Holt, a major international consulting and engineering firm in Lakewood, Colo., has introduced two new additions to its line of mining software. Opcost provides detailed and summarize…
The first commercial production of refined antimony in Canada will take place within the next few months. The metal will be produced by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada in its antimony ref…
It turns out that 1981 might have been a watershed for base metals. Up until then, Canada’s national reserves of the base metals had been on a steady upward path. According to figures compiled and p…
Last fall, 20 senior supervisors from Noranda Inc.’s operations across the country went through an intensive hoist maintenance course. For three days in Toronto and another day in Montreal, the group …
Gold production from Pioneer Metals Corp.’s new Puffy Lake mine, near Flin Flon, Man., was scheduled to reach 75% of design capacity by the end of 1987. By the end of this year, the $18-million underg…
In order to prove or disprove the bare possibility that a second sill exists below the one recently driven through, Northern Empire will diamond-drill vertically below the 1,700-ft horizon as soon as …
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