1988

Mining companies have been traditionally slow in accepting or adopting new tech nology for predictive maintenance. I helped with the installation of such technology at the first planning and schedulin…

The six platinum group metals (PGMs) are elements that possess unique chemical and physical characteristics. Members of the group have been in high demand by jewellers since their discovery in ancient…

Busy Little Bacteria II: One way to deal with ores which contain gold trapped in the crystal lattice of arsenopyrite is to feed it to microscopic bacteria. These little microbes oxidize the sulphides,…

The size of the winnings has yet to be determined. But at the very least, the McCoy/Cove gold-silver deposit in north-central Nevada illustrates how a successful exploration program can boost the over…

In 1968, a supposedly stable, near-surface backfilled stope in Timmins collapsed. In 1981, an old stope caved to surface near the town of Malartic, Que., creating a depression 300 ft across and more t…

Is mankind doomed to someday walk the earth alone, save for domesticated animals and mutant insects? Will we turn our once “Garden of Eden” into a living purgatory, or even blow ourselves off the face…

I was interested to read the article in the June issue of your magazine entitled “High-Speed Mucking” and especially the portion on the Voest Alpine AL-60 loader. Unfortunately, the writer does not ap…

Talk about a notable lack of success. In Canada, we produce tons of by-product silver, enough to rank us fourth in the world, and the Sudbury Basin coughs up sufficient platinum group metals to make C…

About 120 million years ago, a metal-bearing, carbonate-rich hydrothermal fluid was channelled by a steeply dipping, major strike-slip fault zone which developed nearly 10 km beneath the contemporary…

Not content with simply being Falconbridge Ltd.’s largest single shareholder, Noranda Inc. has increased its ownership of the nickel producer to 16.5% and will probably buy more. After failing once to…

After its credibility was severely damaged by operating problems at the Summitville gold mine in Colorado, Galactic Resources (TSE) appears to be back in the good books of at least one British brokera…

N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Aug 101.00 99.50 100.05 + 6.60 Sep 101.20 99.25 100….