1988

As a boy, I first learned about platinum from my great-grandfather, a metallurgist who, back in the 1870s, worked it in high-quality laboratory equipment and dentistry. In those days, inventive minds …

In the article “Unconventional Grading” in your August issue, you have made an outstanding contribution to the prevailing confusion about the relationship of the metric system to other systems of weig…

It’s no secret that pouring base metals matte in smelters built shortly after the turn of the century goes hand-in-hand with pumping acid rain-causing sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Ask any smel…

I read with interest your “Cross-cuts” article in the June issue about the golden bungle at Delnite Mines on June 2, 1950. I was the chief geologist at that time and George Vary (mine superintendent) …

Norman Keevil Jr, president of Teck Corp., suggested last year that a price turnaround for copper couldn’t be far off. The reason? His board of directors was almost unanimously negative on the red met…

Discussing last week’s congressional election results, Business Week says: “The business outlook has been immensely strengthened by the election results. Businessmen are divided between the Democrat…

Diamond drilling contractor N. Morissette Canada announces the retirement of Dave Anderson. He joined Morissette in 1962 and has been president and general manager since 1976. In total, he has close t…

Lead surprised just about everyone when it averaged 27 (US) per lb on the London Metals Exchange during 1987, an increase over 18 in 1986. It was a turnaround year for the metal, the price of which ha…

Cobalt, Ont., is justly Cfamous for its silver mines and the turn-of-the- century boom that made it the cradle of Canadian mining. It was a time of unbounded optimism and new developments in mineral p…

Nineteen-eighty-eight has seen unexpected prices for most mine products. Base metal markets have been characterized by very tight immediate supply from terminal markets leading to very high prompt pri…

The Namew Lake nickel-copper deposit, 60 km south of Flin Flon, Man., hosts diluted recoverable ore reserves of 2.58 million tonnes grading 2.44% nickel, 0.9% copper, 0.102 g gold per tonne, 4.11 g si…

Something is going on in the Canadian uranium industry. It’s happening rather quietly, and it doesn’t involve the junior resource sector or most of Canada’s major mining companies. Foreign companies a…