EXPLOATION ’89 THE MINES
Brunswick No 12 When it comes to reserves, BrunsWwick Mining & Smelting faces an embarrassment of riches At the end of 1987, the official reserve stood at 97,182,000 tonnes of proven and probable ore…
1989
HIGH GRADE AND HIGH HOPES
Keen observers of drill core at the annual meeting of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto last March may have noticed a box of unusual core from the Bathurst camp Taken from …
MR EXPLORTATION Noranda Exploration’s John Harvey
Throughout its history the Noranda company * * * has manifested what is tantamount to genius in finding, by accident or design, the right man for the job — from the book “Noranda” by Leslie Roberts N…
Laws `WYSIWYG’
In the language of the computer Isalesman, the acronym wysiwyg Istands for “What You See Is What You Get” — a commendable thought not only in computers but also in mining agreements Unfortunately, wi…
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS
A shining metal headframe, a small trailer complex of offices and a long, metal building sparkle in the sunlight of a rare perfect day on the Barrens at Courageous Lake, N W T Here, Thyssen Mining Co…
RESEARCH IMPROVED SLAG FUMING
Recent modifications to a zinc Rextraction process at CoRminco’s Trail, B C , smelter have almost doubled production efficiency during plant testing Tests of the modified zinc slag fuming process, co…
50 YEARS AGO TODAY DEAN OF GEOLOGISTS
A world figure and one of the leading scientists of his time has passe d from the picture In the death of Dr Arthur Philemon Coleman, dean of Canadian geologists, the country has lost a great contrib…
Editor’s Note BASE METALS SEARCH
A popular musical group several years back called Blood, Sweat and Tears moaned about being down so long that “bottom looked like up ” I can imagine this standard blues sentiment was adopted by would-…
UNCERTAIN PROSPECTS
Of all the words that might best describe the exploration industry in 1988, none is more appropriate than “contrast” — dramatic contrast Still reeling from the devastation of the October, 1987, stoc…
Letters ON METRIC, BONUSES, PINCHI
In the November issue, there was a letter that suggested you contributed to the confusion between metric and other systems of measures It referred to an earlier article that stated one troy ounce is …
EXPLORATION ’89
With this our fourth issue in as many years dedicated to mining exploration across the country, we are trying something new In issues past, we covered grassroots exploration This time, we asked a se…
THE BIG NICKEL SEARCH
These are not exactly boom times in nickel exploration for Canada’s two major nickel producers It’s not like the late 1960s and early 1970s when Inco Ltd went searching for lateritic nickel deposits …