50 YEARS AGO QUEEN STEALS HEARTS
Captivating Sudburians as they have charmed the rest of Canada, Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth gave the nickel mining district an additional thrill this week by going underground t…
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50 YEARS AGO MACASSA DEEP LEVELS
At the annual meeting Macassa Mines Ltd. held March 23rd, shareholders were told by the president, R.A. Bryce, that there was every indication that ore results on the three new bottom levels would be …
50 YEARS AGO RECORD EARNINGS FOR NORANDA
In 1938, Noranda Mines enjoyed its best year of operations to date. Tonnage treated, production and earnings were at the highest point on record, a satisfactory financial position was maintained, and …
Key Lake Commuters
The trend to fly-in operations did not bypass Key Lake. Situated some 240 km north of the nearest major settlement, La Ronge, Sask., the operation began and continues to function as a fly-in mine. Wor…
CIGAR LAKE AT A GLANCE
George Peebles has a mining assignment that ambitious uranium miners would give their eye teeth for. Cigar Lake is the pre-eminent technical challenge in uranium mining today. The deposit is highly ra…
50 YEARS AGO KIENA TO RESUME OPERATIONS
Preparations are being made to resume work at the property of Kiena Gold Mines, Limited, in the Siscoe area of Quebec. First work will be the extension of the north-easterly bearing crosscut on the 43…
ORE HORIZONS THE SAMATOSUM DEPOSIT
Situated in the rolling Shuswap Highlands, 60 km northeast of Kamloops in south-central British Columbia (right), the Samatosum deposit is becoming the first of what Minnova Inc. believes will be a nu…
The Sporting Life
Golf anyone? Tennis? Maybe commandeer one of Key Lake’s seven fishing boats and troll for lake trout? Or lift weights, shoot pool, play raquetball, curl, sweat it out in the sauna or choose sides for …
LAW LEGALISE EXPLAINED
When talking to a lawyer, you might notice the lawyer uses words that are common in everyday speech, but somehow, when uttered by him or her, they take on a strange meaning that may or may not be simi…
LETTERS Caribou
The article in the March, 1989, issue on the Caribou mine of New Brunswick, gives a wrong impression on the discovery of the Caribou deposit. It says: “Cavalero, an American geologist from Maine, was…
PROBING THE DEPTHS
A new exploration tool is being used to profile structures 12 km down inside the lithosphere. By L. Mayrand, A. G. Green, C. Hubert, S. L. Jackson, J. N. Ludden, B. Milkereit, R. H. Sutcliffe, and P….
What’s New A NEW LOCOMOTIVE
As Canada’s miners tackle narrower vein deposits, they’ll need locomotives to haul the ore to the shaft in the mines that opt for track mining. But while locomotives have been around a long time, few …