Granges earnings $1 million better
Net earnings of $1.7 million were reported by Granges (TSE) for the 1990 first quarter, compared with $655,000 for the similar period of the previous year. The jump in earnings was the result of an in…
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Denison prepared to sell non-core assets
Faced with mounting losses and a battered share price, Toronto- based Denison Mines (TSE) may be forced to divest more of its non- uranium assets in order to meet future financial obligations. The com…
Additional cash for Int’l Platinum
Toronto-based International Platinum (TSE) has received a further $250,000 to finance exploration on the Duluth platinum project in Minnesota and the Goodfish gold property near Kirkland Lake, Ont. Th…
Sale of Westfield gold mine to Northgate to be studied
Westfield Minerals (TSE) appeared to bow to pressure from some minority shareholders when it agreed recently to commission an independent study into the sale of its mining assets to Northgate Explorat…
CURBING BLAST DAMAGE
Intuition, rather than hard facts, more often guides mine operators in predicting the adverse effects blasts will have on mine excavations. But predicting blast-induced damage is slowly coming into it…
CALENDAR (June 01, 1990)
July 2-6, Edinburgh, Scotland. 14th Congress of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions. Organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Contact Secretary, Institution of Mining an…
WESTRAY: CURRAGH’S COAL MINE
Jerry Bell is a mechanical engineer who, for the past 16 years, has worked on the construction of coal-fired electric generating plants in Canada. Today he’s in charge of another such project, in Tren…
THE NORTHERN MINER; JUNE 1940
U.S. NAVY NEEDS MORE ARMOR PLATE The largest awards on record for one time have been made by the U.S. Navy Department involving 22 ships to cost some $327 million. They include two 45,000-ton cruisers…
DRILLS, DIGGERS, DOZERS AND SUCH
Clearing Drawpoints North Channel Engineering, near Sudbury, Ont., has developed Safe Shot blasting tubes to clear plugged drawpoints. Safe Shot consists of a self-tying, heavy-duty burlap blasting ba…
A GIANT BEEP FOR MANKIND
Edwin Gauchier is interested in finding mines. That’s why he studied to become a geophysict. And he doesn’t care how they’re found as long as they’re found. His is not the approach taken by most prosp…
IT`S A MAD, MAD WORLD
The following items are offered for your edification or entertainment. Zaire has long been a major copper producer, first under Belgian colonial rule and, since the 1960s, under independent rule. But …
DON’T JUST SIT THERE
Today, most people share a peculiar “either/or” attitude toward environmental protection; people can be concerned about either the rights of business or protecting the natural environment. Consequentl…