Southern to finance Chester development
With a commitment to spend $6 million on exploration and development over a 3-year period, Southern Arizona Mining and Smelting (COATS) says it intends to form a joint venture with Gold Bar Resources …
1990
U.S.REPORT West Pride’s Arizona ground features big mineralized
The property would be a hard day’s ride from this hot, dusty town in an area steeped in the history of the American wild west. One would be hard pressed to find men to make that ride to the Dragoon Mo…
Granges earnings $1 million better
Net earnings of $1.7 million were reported by Granges (TSE) for the 1990 first quarter, compared with $655,000 for the similar period of the previous year. The jump in earnings was the result of an in…
Denison prepared to sell non-core assets
Faced with mounting losses and a battered share price, Toronto- based Denison Mines (TSE) may be forced to divest more of its non- uranium assets in order to meet future financial obligations. The com…
Additional cash for Int’l Platinum
Toronto-based International Platinum (TSE) has received a further $250,000 to finance exploration on the Duluth platinum project in Minnesota and the Goodfish gold property near Kirkland Lake, Ont. Th…
Sale of Westfield gold mine to Northgate to be studied
Westfield Minerals (TSE) appeared to bow to pressure from some minority shareholders when it agreed recently to commission an independent study into the sale of its mining assets to Northgate Explorat…
CURBING BLAST DAMAGE
Intuition, rather than hard facts, more often guides mine operators in predicting the adverse effects blasts will have on mine excavations. But predicting blast-induced damage is slowly coming into it…
THE NORTHERN MINER; JUNE 1940
U.S. NAVY NEEDS MORE ARMOR PLATE The largest awards on record for one time have been made by the U.S. Navy Department involving 22 ships to cost some $327 million. They include two 45,000-ton cruisers…
HUGE HAULERS
What moves on all fours, stands Wso tall that even basketball Wplayers can walk under it, and sports a pea-sized brain (relative to its mass, of course)? Well, certain types of dinosaur would have qua…
THE BLUENOSE PROJECT
Nova Scotia started down the path of energy self-sufficiency through coal many years ago and it appears the path also leads to the U.S. export market. The Nova Scotia Power Corp. has conceived a plan,…
ENTREPRENEURIAL UPSTART; BLM’s Risto Laamanen
The mine engineering consulting Tand contracting establishment Tin Canada was built around the strong entrepreneurial, pioneering spirit of several mining men. That spirit was characterized by a willi…
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
I was shocked by the first paragraph of your editorial (“Blessing or Curse?”) in the October, 1989, issue. To read these comments in a newspaper is understandable, but in an otherwise good mining trad…