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In view of the improved market for copper, preparations are being hastened for the resumption of operations at the Granby Consolidated M.S. & P. Co.’s Copper Mountain mine and 2,500-ton concentrator a…

Bromac Industrial Controls (Downsview, Ont.) has begun marketing computer terminals designed and manufactured by Gamma Products. Sealed in a non-ventilated cast aluminum case, these terminals can be h…

Under normal conditions Sigma Mines’ new big gold mill should be completed in early April when it will swing into production at a rate of 300 tons daily, The Northern Miner can say after visiting the …

As the deadline for spending approaches, it is difficult to imagine an area more active in exploration than Val d’Or, Que. Nearly every property in the camp is getting some sort of going over as the e…

The officers of the newly- formed company Heath & Sherwood Drilling (1986) are: James Savage, president, John Halsall, secretary-treasurer, Francis Aimone and Edward Marinigh, directors.

Wisconsin-based Northwest Engineering Co. has signed a letter of intent with General Motors Corp. to acquire TEREX Corp. of Ohio and TEREX Equipment of Scotland. Terex is to be operated as an independ…

With reference to your article on zinc (“Outshining Other Major Metals”) in the November issue, I wish to inform you that the Black Angel mine is not closed. It is operated by Boliden, the Swedish min…

Dravo Wellman Co. is to act as the exclusive sales and service representative for New Jersey-based MKT Geotechnical Systems’ Mead-Morrison spare parts business. Pittsburgh-based Dravo Wellman, a divis…

Back in July, 1985, the Alberta Oil Sands Technology Research Authority (aostra) invited tenders to design and manufacture an underground drill rig to test a proposed method of recovering bitumen from…

Stanley Gold Mines, just south of Wawa Lake in the Michipicoten area, had a program of shaft-sinking to open up three new levels nicely under way when The Northern Miner visited the property. … Drif…

Dresser Industries of Marion, Ohio, has built a new mining shovel for an iron ore mine in Australia. With a duty cycle of 30 sec., the 65-cu-yd shovel can load a 190-ton truck in three passes. Working…

For many, many years the mining industry considered itself a rugged, old survivor, able to endure the toughest of times. Of course, the industry hadn’t banked on the mini-holocaust handed us by the re…