1989

The trend to fly-in operations did not bypass Key Lake. Situated some 240 km north of the nearest major settlement, La Ronge, Sask., the operation began and continues to function as a fly-in mine. Wor…

George Peebles has a mining assignment that ambitious uranium miners would give their eye teeth for. Cigar Lake is the pre-eminent technical challenge in uranium mining today. The deposit is highly ra…

Preparations are being made to resume work at the property of Kiena Gold Mines, Limited, in the Siscoe area of Quebec. First work will be the extension of the north-easterly bearing crosscut on the 43…

Situated in the rolling Shuswap Highlands, 60 km northeast of Kamloops in south-central British Columbia (right), the Samatosum deposit is becoming the first of what Minnova Inc. believes will be a nu…

Golf anyone? Tennis? Maybe commandeer one of Key Lake’s seven fishing boats and troll for lake trout? Or lift weights, shoot pool, play raquetball, curl, sweat it out in the sauna or choose sides for …

When talking to a lawyer, you might notice the lawyer uses words that are common in everyday speech, but somehow, when uttered by him or her, they take on a strange meaning that may or may not be simi…

The article in the March, 1989, issue on the Caribou mine of New Brunswick, gives a wrong impression on the discovery of the Caribou deposit. It says: “Cavalero, an American geologist from Maine, was…

A new exploration tool is being used to profile structures 12 km down inside the lithosphere. By L. Mayrand, A. G. Green, C. Hubert, S. L. Jackson, J. N. Ludden, B. Milkereit, R. H. Sutcliffe, and P….

As Canada’s miners tackle narrower vein deposits, they’ll need locomotives to haul the ore to the shaft in the mines that opt for track mining. But while locomotives have been around a long time, few …

The Key Lake mine, on the south eastern rim of the Athabasca Sandstone Basin in northern Saskatchewan, has been producing uranium since 1983. The first of two high grade open pits has been exhausted b…

In many respects, seismic reflection profiling is like listening to a voice echoed from a cliff. For land seismic surveying, sound is either generated by explosions or by powerful radio-controlled vib…

The end of the gold boom (a boom which caused annual world production rates to nearly double in the past nine years) is not yet in sight. World gold production in 1938, according to preliminary estima…