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The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …

It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …

Measured reserves of fewer than 130,000 tons might seem a touch on the light side for anyone to start talking about a mine. But Skyline Resources is more than just talking about that reserve figure fo…

Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…

Here’s a curious twist. U.S. energy producers ear that “the Canadians” might grab a larger piece of the U.S. energy market. (This must be a reversal of the wolf sweeping down on the fold.) Their conce…

With the proliferation of flow-through financing, some exploration companies have found it nearly impossible to find a drill rig. In the winter drilling season last year, at least one junior company, …

Harnischfeger’s new and massive dredge floats on superlatives (and water, of course): largest; most powerful; its 50-cu-yd clamshell bucket can plop immense mucky loads into a 6,000- cu-yd companion s…

At the turn of the century, gold nuggets were found on the shore of a lake 60 miles northwest of North Bay, Ont. Four decades passed before anyone formally mined the deposit. That operation, known as …

Four new models of Caterpillar wheel loaders deliver increased horsepower and rimpull for improved performance, over four former models, the company reports. Larger-capacity buckets with bolt- on edge…

Comdale Technologies of Toronto has developed an expert system to control the flotation circuit at Cominco’s Polaris mine, in the Northwest Territories. Genex, an expert system tool kit, was used to d…

The tide of base metal consumption, which had been ebbing steadily since last mid-summer, may resume its flow this week. The reason is that markets for copper, lead and zinc are springing into activi…

Wagner Mining Equipment of Portland, Ore., has joined John Clark (see What’s New in our December issue) in offering an electrical-powered load- haul-dump machine. Called the Mini-scoop, Wagner’s unit …