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Oct 2-3, Ottawa, Ont. Stresses in underground structures: determination, prediction & monitoring. At the Venture Inn. Contact Dr. G. Herget, Canadian Mine Technology Lab, Mineral Research Laboraties/C…

A few years ago, big Canadian mining companies decided to spin off various assets — usually gold properties — into satellite companies tethered in some fashion to the corporate mother ship. The stra…

Skip hoists have been automated for some time, and it should known by this fall whether or not government officials in Ontario will approve the use of microprocessor-based systems on cage hoists. A fu…

Today there are many developments occurring in the industry that lead us to think that strong changes are taking place and that the nature of mining may change profoundly in the future. This article w…

Our collective mediocrity has been well-documented. Hewers of wood, drawers of water and all that. The critics charge that we have beavered away for too long, chopping down vast tracts of forest, digg…

Media Circus Re: “Don’t Just Sit There,” by Moira Jackson. Northcare, a community coalition of resource companies and municipalities in North Bay, Ont., is trying to promote the message Jackson sugges…

A materials-handling operation for gold heap leaching has been successfully completed at Echo Bay Mines’ Round Mountain facility in Nevada. The system is part of the operation’s expansion to 35,000 to…

Hemlo, Ont. is a long way from Eskay Creek, B.C. Despite this and other marked contrasts, both mineral projects skyrocketed to prominence as a result of unique and spectacular discoveries that were av…

It is axiomatic that it is as important to know the objective priorities of the opposite party to a negotiation as it is to know your own. This applies particularly to negotiations with aboriginal gro…

Often going incognito, micro-computer chips are invading almo mine machinery. Laptop and other portable computers can now process information in the field. Today’s surveying equipment has on-board com…

There is no such thing as a simple legal dispute. Once legal begins or is seriously considered, a dispute over one matter spawns other matters until there is a whole school of disputes. As well, the r…

Down-the-hole or in-the-hole bits have been around for at least two decades now. Early on, the major players were TRW Mission (which is now with Sandvik), Ingersoll-Rand and Atlas Copco. As the popula…