The Swede’s lead
When Mike Amsden, Falconbridge’s vice-president and general manager for Kidd Creek Mines, travelled to Stockholm earlier this year to attend the 13th World Mini ng Congress, he took a $1.25-million pu…
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How safe?
A recent spate of mine fatalities has many people wondering just how safe Canada’s mines are. Critics say the industry is killing off miners at an alarming ra te while others claim that a miner could …
ON THE MOVE Gerber Energy International
Bernard Free has been appointed chairman and president of Denver, Colo. -based G erber Energy International and Gerber Energy Corp. He has also been appointed ch airman of Gerber Minerals Corp.
ON THE MOVE KPN International
Edward Brookman has been made a senior executive of Newtown, Conn.-based kpn International. He will direct the company’s activities in air toxic particulate and voc emissions, asbestos, indoor air qua…
London calling
“Canada is producing the most interesting development projects in the mining industry anywhere in the world.” The speaker isn’t one of our trade commissioners or a Vancouver stock promoter. He is gold…
50 years Ago AUGUST, 1937 FIFTY-SEVEN MINES SHIP TO TRAIL
During the first six months of 1937, shipments of crude ore to the Trail smelter for treatment from 57 small mines in the Kootenay-Boundary area aggregated 5, 085 tons. This constitutes a new record b…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Robertson Research International
A new airborne geophysical and remote-sensing contracting/consulting service is available to the international exploration industry. Robertson Research Internat ional of the U.K. has expanded its geop…
Acadia pulls exceptional hole on Mooseland bet
Acadia Mineral Ventures has drilled what President Donald Smith calls “probably the biggest hole to be pulled in the Maritimes.” It’s hole E-5 put down on the east side of the Tangier River on the com…
Alberta Stock Exchange Gold volumes climb
Production decisions combined with an increase in the gold bullion price brought trading out of its summer doldrums and sent volumes shooting to levels not seen in recent months. For the second week i…
Pillar power THE RIGHT ROCK BOLT FOR YOUR MINE
Four years ago the Quebec government contracted Laval University in Quebec City to conduct a study of the rockbolt types used in the province’s mines. The objec tive of the project was to produce a gu…
METAL MARKETS Supply factor less influential
The supply of physical gold coming onto the market is less important than it used to be in determining gold prices, according to the analytical monthly GOLDynamics published by B.R. Inc. in Pennsylvan…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Drillco Industrial Canada
Drillco Industrial Canada, a manufacturer of rotary drilling tools, has pruchased the Canadian division from the U.S.-based parent company. Dic has retained its previous clients and conducts business …