CORE SHACK The Ketza River Property
Ketza River, a “pipe and manto” deposit consisting of both primary sulphide and secondary oxide ores, is in central Yukon, about 50 miles south of Ross River and 180 miles north-northeast of Whitehors…
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WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Low-profile Raisebore Drill
The Robbins Co. of Kent, Wash., has built a new, low-profile raisebore machine. Called the 97RL-DC, it incorporates an offset gear train, an underhung motor design and telescoping cylinders. Similar t…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation A New Titan
Marathon LeTourneau has also introduced a 200-ton rear dump truck. Equipped with a 2,000-hp engine, the Titan T-2000 reportedly delivers fast response and acceleration to speeds of more than 30 mph. A…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Button Bit Grinder
Cme Blasting & Mining Equipment of Oakville, Ont., is marketing a new grinding tool manufactured by Delro Industries (Winnipeg, Man.). Called Super-Diaroc, the tool is designed to retrofit tungsten ca…
Suppliers’ Notes AIR CANADA
Air Ontario of London, Ont., Austin Airways of Timmins and Air Canada are to form an alliance in an attempt to improve air transportation services throughout Ontario. Pursuing this objective, both Air…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– ATHABASCA GOLD FINDS APPEAR HIGHLY
What appears to be important new gold discoveries have been made on Norite Bay, Lake Athabasca. The finds were made just before freeze-up, but sufficient information has already been secured to indica…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY 1937– BASE METAL PRICES SOAR AGAIN ON
On Tuesday came the announcement that the copper production restriction agreement had been abandoned. This means producers in Africa, Chile and other countries, which are parties to the agreement, wil…
50 Years Ago –JANUARY, 1937– LEITCH GOLD MOVES INTO PRODUCTION
The first of the 1937 crop of gold producers in Canada made its bow on January 10 with the turning over of the new mill at the Leitch Gold Mines property, pioneer operator of the new Beardmore-Sand Ri…
Letters Seeing Things
During the last few years i have had the opportunity to work with a number of young geologists from whom I have learned that geological mapping or core-logging is an illusion — an illusion in the sen…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation A Speedy Loader
Wajax Industries is marketing the newest front-end loader from Marathon LeTourneau. Labelled the L-1100, the 1,050-hp loader has a breakout force of 188,000 lb and a payload capacity of 33 tons in a 2…
WHAT’S NEW The Tools of Automation Fiber Optic Link
EOTec Corp. of West Haven, Conn., has developed an asynchronous fibre optic data link that allows different data formats to be selected at each end of the link, providing automatic format conversion. …
CROSS CUTS Heroes and Leaders
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…