Internal responsibility
If you have been rubbing elbows recently with your counterparts in the mining industry, you may have heard the buzz term “IRS” being bandied about. No, they haven’t run afoul of the U.S. Internal Reve…
News
Old mines never die…they become garbage dumps
Canadian mining communities have for years pondered, with considerable dread, what would happen when the motherlode runs dry. But the ascendancy of environmental protection as the political issue of t…
Mining goes metropolitan
It is a rare sight — a 2-boom jumbo, longhole drills, and a tube-shaped electromagnetic device brightly clad in yellow sitting there at street level in downtown Toronto, dwarfed by a 50-storey office…
Suppliers’ notes (November 02, 1990)
The administration and accounting operations of El-Equip Inc. have been moved to the company’s head office in Sudbury, Ont. The new address is 1078 Kelly Lake Rd., Sudbury, Ont. P3E 5P4. (Phone: 705-6…
Automated Equipment
Automatic Lubricators A new system of single-point automatic lubricators may help mine operators save money. Perma Distributors describes its product as less costly than central automatic lubrication …
Northern alliance; Cominco’s Red Dog mine, in northwestern Alaska,
The Red Dog project in northwestern Alaska is something of an anomaly. It’s more than just one of the richest base metal mines in the world — it’s a socio-economic alliance between the native people …
Gaining control
The trend to high-technology monitoring and control in minera processing has been heating up over the past few years. In fact, in a recent Statistics Canada survey, nearly 250 mines said they had adop…
On the move (November 02, 1990)
Ralph Denholm has been appointed to the position of service manager for Nordberg Machinery in Guelph, Ont. Denholm has been with Nordberg since 1969, most rcently as materials manager. This newly crea…
COATS (Over-the-counter) Whisper starts to shout
Little-known Whisper Lake Resources vaulted into the market this week with plans to drill some favorable anomalies on a gold property south of Chibougamau, Que. Whisper gained 15 cents for the week en…
California alone in recognizing importance of minerals
It is interesting to note that California — a state in which the mining industry finds difficult to obtain the required permits to mine — some time ago recognized the importance and uniqueness of it…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Governments sap industry’s vitality
I wish to address the plight of the Canadian mining industry in these troubled times. It is abundantly clear that the vitality of our industry has been sapped by severe, adverse and counter-productive…
Record production, earnings for Barrick
Record gold production, earnings and revenue were reported by American Barrick Resources (TSE) for the third quarter and first nine months of 1990. Gold output during the quarter totalled 163,366 oz.,…