TECH CORP Maverick Management
If there is a style that characterizes Teck’s management, it is one of not bei ng hamstrung by convention. A physicist guards the books, a chartered accountant handles marketing, and mining engineers …
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ON THE MOVE Asbestos Institute
The Asbestos Institute in Montreal has announced that Claude Forget is its new president. Forget, an economist and a partner with the consulting firm of secor Inc. of Montreal, succeeds previous pres…
LETTERS Only Surveyors survey
I am writing this letter to point out an error with respect to the caption under the photograph on page 35 of the March, 1987, issue of your magazine (Engineers survey property lines). Contrary to muc…
CROSS-CUTS ONTARIO’S ACCIDENTS LOWEST EVER
The Mines Accident Prevention Association of Ontario says 1986 saw the lowest accident frequency rate ever recorded in the history of Ontario’s mining industry. During the year the lost- time injury f…
CROSS CUTS Ceative Financing
A Chinese project with a couple of Canadian connections is expected to result in the largest coal mine in the world. The Royal Bank of Canada is one of five co-lead banks in a consortium of 33 banks i…
TECH CORP. Yukon Paydirt
Teck Corp. manages the small (4,000-oz-per-year) Granville joint venture, in the Yukon’s famous Klondike district on behalf of Balner Enterprises (40%). Operations are seasonal at the placer gold mine…
CROSS-CUTS TOWERING INFERNO
Mining equipment manufacturers are always on the lookout for areas in which to diversify, and Connellsville Elevator Corp. of Pennsylvania seems to have found a market niche just waiting to be filled….
LETTERS Foreign Explorers
We read with great interest the March issue of The Northern Miner Magazine dealing with Exploration ’87. We noticed that the picture which was supposed to illustrate the draft article which we submitt…
TECK CORP Newfoundland Zinc: Ready to Go
With the drop in the price of zinc and declining ore grades, Teck has no immediate plans to re-open the Newfoundland Zinc mine although an improvement in price could trigger a production decision. The…
TECK CORP. Hemlo Mine’s Future in Judges’ Hands
By the time you read this, the Ontario Court of Appeal may have handed down one of the most important decisions ever made by a Canadian court concerning the mining industry — Lac Minerals vs. Interna…
TECK CORP. A Jackpot in the Arctic
When, in 1968, bush pilot and prospector Bob Baker spotted a mineral-stained creek in northwestern Alaska, he reported the unusual observation to the U.S. Geological Survey. Little did he know he had…
TECK CORP. The Biggest and the Best
When Cominco’s new lead smelter at Trail, B.C., opens in early 1989, it will mark substantial completion of a half-billion-dollar modernization of the world’s largest zinc-lead metallurgical complex. …