Montreal Exchange Indices show gains
Investors welcomed in a new month in an optimistic mood, with both the market portfolio and mining and minerals index posting gains for the holiday-shortened week ended April 2. The former moved up by…
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Try It On For Size
I am told that in the Kirkland Lake gold mines of the 1940s, there was resistance to the newfangled jackleg or pusherleg drill that Atlas Copco had just invented. Resistance appeared on two fronts. Wo…
Not Amused
I am disgusted at the attitude displayed in your editorial entitled “Our Man at Thompson” [see December 1990 issue]. The licence that you took describing the city of Thompson in the way that you did i…
What’s New in Mining: Raise Reamers
Raise reamers designed and manufactured by Machines Roger International of Val d’Or, Que. have entered the market. The first machine was the V-30, capable of reaming an 8-inch pilot hole to 30 inches …
What’s New in Milling: Barmac Crusher
Not new to the overseas aggregates industry, but a relative newcomer to Canada, is the Barmac crusher, distributed by Wajax Industries of Markham, Ont. Developed and manufactured in New Zealand, this …
50 Years Ago (April 05, 1991)
CANADIAN MALARTIC DOUBLES ORE Another substantial increase in ore reserves, leading to consideration of plans for expansion of milling facilities, has been the principal feature of results at Canadian…
Raising the Green Flag: The Environmental Program (Second of Two
In the previous Law article, The Environmental Audit (see our January, 1991 issue), we left the corporation and its directors with a completed environmental audit that pointed out both actual and pote…
Underground Radio
Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874-1937) first successfully transmitted over the English Channel in 1899 and across the Atlantic in 1901. Only pulse transmisssions were possible at the time and it was r…
What’s New in Exploration: Navigational Accuracy
A navigatonal and positioning device of considerable accuracy has been developed by Telefix Canada of Richmond Hill, Ont. Known as the Magellan GPS 1000, the unit can determine latitude, longitude and…
PEOPLE PIERCE MOUNTAIN RESOURCES
L. George appointed a director succeeding Jordan Ethans who resigned.
GOLD FUNDS (April 01, 1991)
Gold funds as of Mar. 26 BGR Central Net Value $9.07 $5.11 Price $8.00 $4.650 Discount 11.80% 9.0% Value $54,030,833 $78,232,995…
Toronto Stock Exchange Thunderwood, Greenstone react to stringer
Mining types who met in Toronto at the annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention got the tonic they were looking for at the end of an otherwise depressing week. As gold slippe…