A BREAKNECK PACE Pan-Empire
In the fall of last year, an A.C.A. Howe company, Ateba Mines of Toronto, started screening and sorting old mine dump material grading as low as 0.01 oz gold per ton. This material, from the old North…
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A BREAKNECK PACE Mobrun
Exploration on Audrey Resources’ Mobrun deposit started with a big splash — a public announcement in late 1985 that Audrey and Corporation Falconbridge Copper (since renamed Minnova Inc.) would spend…
A BREAKNECK PACE Star Lake
The Star Lake gold mine represents the first such mine in Saskatchewan in more than 40 years. Although small in both reserves and milling rate, the high grade operation combined with relatively simple…
A BREAKNECK PACE Namew Lake
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting has adopted what President Lloyd Nilsen calls a “black-earth” exploration policy, which means all anomalies that turn up during airborne geophysical work will be tested by…
WHAT’S NEW Borescope
A visual inspection tool designed to provide accurate diagnosis of problems inside engines, transmissions and final drives on a variety of mining equipment is now available from Lenox Instrument of Tr…
WHAT’S NEW Clinometer
Emaco (Canada) has introduced the new AccuStar Clinometer. The unit is an electronic sensor that measures vertical angles. It is available as either an analog input/ output or digital input/output dev…
Debunking a myth HOW TO COMPENSATE FOR INITIAL UNDERESTIMATION OF
The precise dimensions of most mineral deposits are not known until they have been nearly mined out. The amount of ore that is ultimately recovered is, in many cases, considerably greater than the ini…
Debunking a myth DEFINITIONS AND METHODOLOGY
A discovery is defined here as a mineral deposit attractive enough to have warranted the expenditure necessary to establish its tonnage and grade. The date of discovery is normally taken to be the yea…
A BREAKNECK PACE S-3 Mine
Rarely is a mining company able to start up two gold mines successfully within the span of only four months. Campbell Resources has done just that, with the Joe Mann and S-3 mines in the Chibougamau c…
A BREAKNECK PACE Goldex
Back in 1973 when the price of gold was a trifling $80(us) an ounce, Goldex Mines was driving a decline at its Dubuisson property, near Val d’Or, Que. There was even talk of putting the property int…
A BREAKNECK PACE JOE MANN
It is sometimes said that the best place to look for a new mine is an old mine — and the Joe Mann gold operation in Chibougamau, Que., is a good example. The mine has operated twice before, under var…
A BREAKNECK PACE K.L. Tailings
Production was scheduled to have started in mid-November on a tailings retreatment project in Kirkland Lake, Ont. Gold mine tailings have been deposited in nine separate tailings areas here over the p…