1988

The Canadian Geoscience Council, in cooperation with the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, present a report of the Advisory Committee on outputs in quaternary and engineering geology entitled: Ma…

Shaft sinking at the Astoria property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., has reached a depth of about 900 ft, between the sixth and seventh levels, Karl Glackmeyer, president of Yorbeau Resources (TSE), told T…

The new Komatsu Dresser Co. of Libertyville, Ill., has elected a 6-member management committee. They are: John Murphy, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Dresser Inc.; Masao Tanaka, pr…

Recovery of gold from cyanide leach solutions can be carried out by zinc precipitation, carbon-in-pulp (CIP) and resin-in-pulp methods. CIP has been generally favored as the method in recently constru…

Much of mine maintenance these days is based on the idea you can predict when a machine will fail. The reasoning goes like this: If you know when a component is going to fail and it costs less to repl…

Although modern exploration interest in the Mishibishu area came about as a sort of `overflow’ from the Hemlo gold rush in the early 1980s, it was only until recent discoveries that major companies ha…

Then comes the interesting part * * * an estimate will be made of what the annual revenue from a mine will be during production to pay for preproduction capital costs. This requires a forecast of what…

In recent years there has been a great deal of money invested in gold mines — new project financing, mergers, acquisitions and the like. Normally, newspaper reports refer only to the size and financi…

A discovery by Inco Ltd. (TSE) geologists in 1981 of a gold deposit lying about 60 miles north of La Sarre, Que., recently became a producing mine (Golden Pond East), a positive sign for the Casa Bera…

From an address to the Financial Times World Gold Conference by Gordon R. Parker, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Newmont Mining Corporation. To talk about financing companies is to…

Paymaster Consolidated is crosscutting through high-grade ore in the new No. 24 vein on the 2,075-ft. level at the No. 3 winze, The Northern Miner can announce. At presstime, the west wall of the cros…

Once known as John F. Kennedy’s campaign song, the words of that popular tune from the 1960s mirrors the hopeful expectations of every mining company. Armed with a positive feasibility study, more tha…