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Copper Cliff Door Manufacturing, which provides the mining sector wit h custom-designed door systems, has changed its name to M & I Door Systems. The company has also moved to a larger quarters in Bar…

Toronto-based Davis Controls has appointed several new distributors w ho will handle its lines of instrumentation and control equipment in British Columbia. From its technical centre in Edmonton, Alta…

The program of surface exploration started about a month ago at the Rouyn, Que., property of New Ribago Mines has resulted in the discovery of several quartz veins which are now being opened up. Repri…

Les Equipements Lefco of Montreal, Que., has delivered to a Montreal contracting company three new Aveling Barford 35-ton capacity trucks. The company will be using the trucks to supply crushed stone …

With half the world’s potash reserves on tap, enough to supply the world’s needs for the next few millenia, you’d think Canada’s potash industry would be able to sit back and take the long view. Inste…

Sharpe Energy and Resources has acquired 292 claims in the Ming’s Bight area of Newfoundland close to where Noranda Exploration made its mineralized occurrences discovery last year. Noranda discovered…

In our April issue we examined ways in which the management of a mine can undermine the effectiveness of its first-line foreman. Sometimes management fails to provide any policy guidelines for mainten…

Kennecott’s concentrator at Copperton, Utah, is getting 33 new 3,000-cu-ft flotation machines this year to recover copper, molybdenum and gold from the Bingham Canyon open pit copper mine. The new con…

There are always exceptions to the rule. Trading in resource issues this week on the Montreal Exchange was generally off, if the falling mining and minerals index was any indication, but a couple of s…

The Soviet Union and China substantially increased sales of gold to the West in 1986, says the British firm Consolidated Gold Fields. Sales from the Communist bloc, at 402 tonnes, were almost twice th…

Spot closing prices in Pound Sterling per tonne Date May 26 May 25 May 22 May 21 May 20 Copper 915.5-916.5 N/A 918-919 908-909 914.50-915.50 Lead …

Drilling to date from the Aw zone on Yorbeau Resources’ Astoria property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., totals 32 intersections, of which 78% have assayed gold values in excess of 0.1 oz per ton, President…