SUPPLIERS’ NOTES MACKLEY PUMPS
Mackley Pumps, part of British-based nei Clarke Chapman, has recently won a number of export orders, valued at #150,000, from Zambia and Canada for its specialized pumps. Zambia Consolidated Copper Mi…
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50 YEARS AGO –OCTOBER, 1937– Canada’s potential is larger,
Recently returned to Toronto from Russia, Percy Hopkins, consulting geologist, remarked that he was greatly impressed with certain aspects of the Soviet mining situation. But he was not greatly impres…
EDITOR’S NOTE Good times
Things haven’t looked this good for Canadian gold miners in years. Prices are up and it looks like South African production is down. Although we may have slipped to fourth place among gold producing …
LETTERS Unmentioned
Patrick Whiteway’s article entitled “Artificial Operators,” in the July issue, was very interesting and informative. The quality of the article was unfortunately marred, in our view, by the way you ha…
LETTERS Nickel plate skepticism
The article by David Duval (Third Time Lucky) in the July issue mentioned my name in association with the open pit operation of Mascot Gold Mines on Nickel Plate Mountain, near Hedley, B.C. Mr Duval …
ORE HORIZONS The Egerton-McLean deposit
The Egerton-McLean gold deposit on Pan East Resources’ Fifteen Mile Stream property is in Halifax Cty., N.S., about 62 miles northeast of the city of Halifax. The deposit is estimated to contain drill…
LETTERS Large Zinc Deposit
It was interesting reading the letter in the August, 1987, issue from Kelvin Pankiw concerning large zinc deposits. I should like to draw your attention to the Howard’s Pass deposit near the Yukon-Nor…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
A collection of unique coal samples that could begin a new era in res earch to make coal use cheaper, cleaner and more efficient has been completed by the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s laboratory in Argonne,…
CROSS-CUTS Missiles for mines
Manitoba engineers and scientists are using bacteria, rockets and computers in the war against unsafe, uproductive and uprofitable mines. The new techniques are being studied under a $25-million resea…
INNOVATIONS Catalyst for cyanide destruction
Degussa Corp. has developed a chemical process, using hydrogen peroxi de, that destroys toxic cyanide complexes found in waste streams by mills that process gold ores. A specially formulated catalyst,…
WHAT’S NEW Connectors for control devices
Woodhead Canada announces a new quick-connect solution for miniature, low-amperage control systems. Micro-Change connectors minimize downtime when control devices need replacement by eliminating the n…
WHAT’S NEW Processor-controlled detector
A tramp-metal detector which features a microprocessor control system has been built by Goriong Kerr Canada. Goring Kerr’s model gkd-101 consists of an inspection coil assembly mounted above and below…