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…
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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…
HUGE HAULERS
What moves on all fours, stands Wso tall that even basketball Wplayers can walk under it, and sports a pea-sized brain (relative to its mass, of course)? Well, certain types of dinosaur would have qua…
THE BLUENOSE PROJECT
Nova Scotia started down the path of energy self-sufficiency through coal many years ago and it appears the path also leads to the U.S. export market. The Nova Scotia Power Corp. has conceived a plan,…
ENTREPRENEURIAL UPSTART; BLM’s Risto Laamanen
The mine engineering consulting Tand contracting establishment Tin Canada was built around the strong entrepreneurial, pioneering spirit of several mining men. That spirit was characterized by a willi…
PAPUA NEW GUINEA AMONG TOP GOLD PRODUCERS
Papua New Guinea, the West Pacific paradise, is quietly becoming a player to reckon with in the international gold mining scene. It can boast three mines in the top 10 of the world’s biggest annual pr…
FIRE-RESISTANT OILS
In the article “Fire Down Below” (NMM, Feb/90), one case history mentioned was that of a haulage truck which “caught fire because a worn transmission hose leaked and sprayed transmission oil on to the…