1988

Lake Dufault Mines has moved the second diamond drill on to its property adjoining Waite Amulet in order to broaden the ore search close to the scene of Waite Amulet’s spectacular drill intersections …

The objective of geophysical exploration from boreholes is to indicate direction and distance to promising targets. To improve the possibilities for 3-dimensional interpretation of the surroundings, a…

One of Canada’s foremost technology watchdogs has predicted that the surface mines of the 1990s will be so dependent on computer-based technology that manpower will be reduced to one-third of current …

Diesel load-haul-dump machines (better known as LHDs or simply scoops) revolutionized underground base metals mining in the early 1960s. Their main advantage was the flexibility they offered. In the l…

Everything was quiet around the Delnite mine property on the night of June 2, 1950. The staff from the gold refinery office had long since cleared out and called it a day. Not 50 yards away in a house…

Joy Technologies of Kitchener, Ont., has booked an order valued in excess of $12 million for the supply of 10 electrostatic precipitators to Chemetics International of Toronto. The units will be inclu…

With financial assistance from the National Research Council, a small, publicly listed industrial research company in Toronto is aggressively pursuing Canada’s hard-rock drilling and bolting market. T…

Your article “The Value of Failure” by William Stanley in the February issue says a great deal about Canadian business and the Canadian banking system. The previous bank manager of the unnamed bank i…

As a director or officer of a corporation carrying on business in Ontario, you might not know that you could be liable to a fine in the order of several tens of thousands of dollars and/or imprisonmen…

The Panel mill was rehabilitated in 1979. At the outset, problems cropped up with the old mill; specifically, in the pumping system (which had to be upgraded) and with contaminants in the ore. This la…

Your recent article (N.M., May 9/88) highlighted the progress made in the development of the Ketza River mining project jointly owned and operated by Pacific Trans- Ocean and Canamax Resources. As a r…

For the third week in succession, Mohave Gold was one of the big traders following news that the Calgary company will buy a Nevada- based gold-silver producer called Canyon Development Mining Inc. Tra…