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The long hours and hot weather of summer are the ultimate tes equipment. Maintenance managers with the best springtime preparation stand the greatest chance of making it through the summer season with…
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Corporate Downsizing
In recent times, downsizing has become an intrinsic managemen strategy as organizations strive to optimize opportunities and conserve limited resouuces in the 1990s — a decade that will be characteri…
Scooptram of the ’90s
Wagner Mining Equipment, a division of the Swedish firm Atlas Copco, recently announced the launch of the first in a series of mining vehicles. The company has dubbed the series “the pace-setters” and…
FOLLOWING THE FAULT: The gold mines of northeastern Ontario and
AMERICAN BARRICK When American Barrick’s Holt-McDermott mine came into the public eye in the late 1980s, the reserve was estimated at about 3.3 million tons grading nearly 0.19 oz. gold per ton (three…
Joint-venture disputes
Proving approval, or the lack thereof, by a joint-venture committee can result in the opening of a can of worms. As the venturers are in a dispute, it goes without saying that they cannot agree upon w…
50 Years ago – October, 1940
MICA IMPORTANT AS WAR MINERAL Mica has been classed as an essential war mineral by the United States authorities responsible for the provision of adequate supplies of such materials. It is one of two …
Wet milling; Treating asbestos tailings
Minimizing a worker’s exposure to asbestos fibre is a top pri for operators of mills that treat asbestos ore. Current Canadian regulations permit two fibres of asbestos per millilitre of air, while ot…
THE SUDBURY BASIN: On track at Lindsey
Falconbridge Ltd.’s Thayer Lindsley (or T.L.) project, an exploration play on a deep-seated nickel/copper orebody a few kilometres outside of Sudbury, Ont., now has a shaft sunk to the 1,310-metre lev…
Still Gilded
The Golden Highway is still gilded. Plenty of mines are produ along this dual stretch of asphalt that runs from Timmins and Kirkland Lake, Ont., to Val d’Or, Que. Two major faults — Porcupine-Destor …
On the move (October 04, 1990)
In his new position of executive vice-president of Dayco Products, Bruce McNeil will have direct responsibility for all sales and marketing functions. He joined the company in 1977 from the accounting…
Kennecott’s gravy train
The first year of mining the open-pit Ridgeway deposits in So Carolina was, to borrow a term employed by Engineering Manager Peter Evans, “gravy.” The soft oxides allowed blasthole spacings of 20 ft. …
Suppliers’ Notes (October 04, 1990)
Intera Information Technologogs Corp. of Calgary, Alta. is acquiring certain assets of the Aero Service division of Western Atlas International, a unit of Dresser Industries and Litton Industries. Int…