ON THE MOVE Newmont Mining Corp.
Newmont Mining Corp. of New York City has announced the appointments of John Johnson, Jr. as vice- president; Timothy Schmitt as vice-president and controller; and Graham Clark, Jr. as vice-president …
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50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– CANADA JOINS WITH KING SOLOMON?
According to archeologists, the gold operations in Arabia in which Premier Gold Mining Co. has an 11% interest date back 2,000 years B.C. It is admitted that there may be a little guesswork as to the …
EDITOR’S NOTE Improving Efficiency
Canada’s mineral extraction industry is based on the favorable geology with which the country was blessed, but it is people who developed the industry into one of the bulwarks of the national economy,…
SUGGESTION BOX Intelligent Monitoring
Curragh Resources, the new owner of the Cyprus Anvil lead-zinc mine in the Yukon, has installed a permanent monitoring system in its mill control room. The company says the system will cut costs consi…
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– WHY CANADA CANNOT MINT GOLD COINS
The reason the governments of Canada and other countries cannot mint gold coins or sell gold bars to the public is because this country and certain other countries are not on a fixed gold standard. W…
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– MYSTERY OF RADIUM AND ITS RAYS
One of the first questions of visitors to the radium laboratory is: “What does radium look like?” Imagine a small glass tube, the size of a match, partly filled with a gray powder; that is the picture…
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– QUEBEC TRYING TO APE MEXICO?
Deep indignation, and talk of reprisals, has been aroused in Ontario over Bill No. 5 which has received its third reading in the Quebec legislature and which may be proclaimed law on Friday of this we…
THE NEW GENERATION
Inco’s Crean Hill mine is using the latest in mining technology minus the diesel equipment. It could become Canada’s safest, most efficient operation when it resumes full production in 1989. By Patri…
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– THREAT OF OUT- BREAK MINIMIZED BY
The possibility of strikes at northern Ontario mines was definitely minimized by leading mine managers who were interviewed this week by The Northern Miner in the course of a survey of the situation a…
LETTERS Remembering the Siscoes
As a person with some interest in the Canadian mining industry it is not unusual to read accounts of the history of different mining areas. I refer to the article “Focus on Val d’Or” in the January is…
MAINTENANCE The First-Line Foreman; A Critical profile
Keith Bowley is a Toronto-based maintenance management consultant. This is ** the first of a 2-part article. ** Miners could be described as people in the business of producing and pr…
People (March 30, 1987)
Western Canadian Mining Corp. — J. Douglas Little appointed president.