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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…

A new high-chrome iron centrifugal process pump for moving abrasive slurries has been introduced by Allis- Chalmers of Milwaukee, Wis. Called the 1,200 Series pump, it requires about 50% less time to …

Norgraphics-Pandick, Canada’s leading international financial printer, has announced that its U.S. partner, Pandick Inc., of New York, the world’s largest financial printer, has signed a joint-ventur…

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…

Canadian Scale of Sudbury, Ont. is marketing a new electronic device that measures the amount of material on a conveyor belt with an accuracy of 95% to 98%. Called Kilo-wate, the unit measures the ele…

Williams & Wilson of Scarborough, Ont., which has been manufacturing furnaces for nearly 50 years, has made a number of technical improvements to its assay furnaces. The company’s latest furnaces are …

Rauma-Repola, one of the largest public companies in Finland, has agreed to purchase the European operations related to the design, manufacture and marketing of crushing equipment of Milwaukee, Wis.-b…

Estimates of Canada’s uranium resources have increased significantly over the past two years, according to Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. New discoveries more than make up for the 25,300 tons of …

How dangerous are those tires used in some mining industry equipment? Rimex Supply of Surrey, B.C., a wheel manufacturer and distributor, has made a video about safety procedures for handling tires. R…

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…