For the second time this year, Belmoral Mines (TSE) and Aur Resources (TSE) have worked out a deal designed to rescue Belmoral from its financial predicament and expand Aur’s influence in the Val d’Or…
Newly listed Arimetco International (TSE) has some ambitious plans to develop low-cost copper mines in North America which make use of acid leaching followed by solvent extraction and electrowinning, …
The need to protect groundwater resources from the contaminating effects of toxic liquids has created a thriving market for the manufacturers of synthetic, “impermeable” geomembranes. Miners seeking t…
An outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in northwest England in 1900, as recorded by Dr. Ernest Reynolds in the British Medical Journal on Nov. 24 of that year, changed the way toxic hazards are regulated. …
“There is no longer a place in our profession for black magicians — although artistry is still to be encouraged — who deliberately obfuscate issues in order to maintain some form of self-serving mys…
Minpro Ltd. has installed Ecuador’s first modern gold-processing plant. The 120-tonne-per-day mill, shipped in modules from the company’s Mississauga factory, will be treating a rich gold ore. Among t…
At the invitation of the Hatchet Lake Indian band, members of the Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB) will meet in October at Wollaston Post, a community 30 km east across Wollaston Lake from Cameco’s …
The Estrades orebody in northwestern Quebec is a gold-rich, polymetallic massive sulphide deposit occurring within the Casa Berardi Fault zone. Although it exhibits characteristics similar to Kuroko-a…
INDIVIDUALISM TRIUMPHS IN B.C. Three cheers for the little guy. In British Columbia, individual prospectors can take credit for the recent discovery of several orebodies. Included in the finds are a t…
A provincial court has ruled that negligent management and improper maintenance procedures caused a spill of contaminated uranium mine water at Rabbit Lake, Sask., on Nov. 6 and 7, 1989. During a peri…
NOT A STRIKE IN CANADA A most significant announcement has been made by the Dept. of Labour in Ottawa, which reports that there was not a single strike or lockout in progress in Canada at the end of J…
Software system manufacturer Jonas & Erickson has appointed Robert Garbutt to the position of president and chief executive officer. Garbutt was recently senior vice-president at MAI Basic Four in the…
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