The Winston Lake zinc-copper-silver-gold deposit, near Schreiber in northwestern Ontario, has become the focus of a lawsuit. Toronto-based Zenmac Zinc launched a legal action in November with the Su…
A Reuters report out of Darwin, Australia says a 62-year-old prospector who has been “scratching away for years” with a pick and shovel about 1,000 km south of the city has found a vein of almost pure…
A new high-chrome iron centrifugal process pump for moving abrasive slurries has been introduced by Allis- Chalmers of Milwaukee, Wis. Called the 1,200 Series pump, it requires about 50% less time to …
Rauma-Repola, one of the largest public companies in Finland, has agreed to purchase the European operations related to the design, manufacture and marketing of crushing equipment of Milwaukee, Wis.-b…
Geotech Ltd. of Markham, Ont., has acquired the name and assets of McPhar Geophysics. The purchase brings a line of ground geophysical instruments to compliment Geotech’s established airborne electrom…
The Montauban and Grand Calumet deposits are geologically similar lead-zinc-gold- silver deposits occurring in the Grenville Province. The lithological, mineralogical and economic similarities are str…
To the people of a tourist town located in a non-mining part of the country, a 10-year mine life doesn’t sound like much — certainly not enough to justify spending $73 million today to scoop 600,000 …
Have you ever heard of silence being used as a performance standard? Consider lubrication. One result of a lubricant at work is the lack of noise as it minimizes friction between metal surfaces in mot…
Discovered in the early 1960s by Egil Lorntzsen, the Lornex orebody was the first porphyry copper deposit developed in British Columbia’s Highland Valley. Shortly thereafter, the larger and higher gra…
When Quintette Coal decided to truck-haul coal from its newly opened Shikano pit to the process plant three kilometres away, the haulage trucks had to cross a public access road. For safety and effici…
Three new hydraulic rock breakers rated at 200-, 250- and 500 ft-lb are now available from Teledyne Canada Mining Products in Thornbury, Ont. The largest breaker, called the tb-180, delivers 850 blows…
A new charging unit for recharging battery-powered mining equipment is now available from Rebuilders Inc. of Fairmont, W. Va. The skid-mounted model 1,300 charger operates on 480/575 volts ac. The cha…
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