1987

A Reuters report out of Darwin, Australia says a 62-year-old prospector who has been “scratching away for years” with a pick and shovel about 1,000 km south of the city has found a vein of almost pure…

When Quintette Coal decided to truck-haul coal from its newly opened Shikano pit to the process plant three kilometres away, the haulage trucks had to cross a public access road. For safety and effici…

From David Tait, Victoria, secretary for Nootka Zeballos Gold Mines, The ** Northern Miner has a letter which gives details of the Privateer Mine, ** operated by his company. Mr Tait’s letter tells it…

Galesburg, Ill.-based National Seal Co. has announced a $6.3-million, 2-phase capital expenditure program to boost manufacturing capacity. Featured is the world’s largest flat sheet extruder of hdpe g…

Knelson International Sales of Langley, B.C. has won the 1987 Canada Export Award for Precious Metal Gravity Separators, The awards were announced by Canada’s External Affairs department.

Ecodyne Ltd.’s Graver Water division has appointed Nortec S.G.S. Inc. of Montreal as sales representative for Quebec. Nortec has represented major process equipment manufacturers for more than 10 year…

Three new hydraulic rock breakers rated at 200-, 250- and 500 ft-lb are now available from Teledyne Canada Mining Products in Thornbury, Ont. The largest breaker, called the tb-180, delivers 850 blows…

A new charging unit for recharging battery-powered mining equipment is now available from Rebuilders Inc. of Fairmont, W. Va. The skid-mounted model 1,300 charger operates on 480/575 volts ac. The cha…

Scintrex Ltd., a high-tech company based in Concord, Ont., has been awarded the rights to engineer, manufacture and market a portable trace narcotics detector. The detector is the result of four years…

In metal mining circles in Canada, there is a quite widely held opinion that base metal prices are due for a rally toward the first of the year. Some quarters believe that the upturn will be well sust…

Winston Lake, 32 km north- northwest of Schreiber, Ont., is a base- and precious – metals – bearing volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit with drill-indicated ore reserves of 3.1 million tonnes gradin…

William Bondar and Malcolm Clegg chuckle about it now, but the time their Whitehorse assay lab mixed up separate core samples from a customer was really no laughing matter. The samples went into a dry…