Hemlo’s David Bell mine it’s not. But like its much larger cousin, the Jolu gold mine, operated by Corona Corp., is expected to make money — and that’s reason enough to celebrate. Located 130 km nort…
Misfires are a common problem in any blasting operation. But engineers at a U.S. National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., have developed and tested a digital device which promises to greatly improve …
Recently, Robert Stanley, chairman and president of The International Nickel Co. of Canada, said there are more than 8,000 standard alloys of which some 2,300 contain nickel. Such is the broad field i…
Ontario gold production made a gain of $8,156,735 in the first nine months of 1938, compared with the first three quarters of 1937. The amount produced in the period was $75,220,595. The Porcupine bel…
Another new find in the Northwest Territories appeared on the records this week with the report of a promising gold discovery by prospectors of Inspiration Mining & Development Co. The find was at a p…
Peacock Inc. of Mississauga, Ont., has been appointed the Canadian distributor for Air-Maze filtration products. Air-Maze is a Cleveland, Ohio-based manufacturer that developed the first oil bath filt…
Peter Steen’s working day starts in the pre-dawn usually, but at a leisurely pace. About four or five o’clock, the lights go on in the condominium he shares with his wife Norma and 20-year-old son alo…
The Corona Corp. of today is the Tcreation of two very different people : Murray Pezim, Canada’s best-known and most flamboyant promoter, and Ned Goodman, a financier with practically no public profi…
About 700 m below the Trans Canada Highway, just west of the sleepy little town of Stellarton, N.S., four continuous mining mach ines will be cutting away at a 6.5-m-thick coal seam some time in the y…
Dr Raj Singhal of the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (canmet) has been awarded a District Proficiency Medal by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Singhal, one of Canada’…
Climatologists have been building sophisticated computer models for several years now, trying to predict the effect the exhaust from cars and industrial processes will have on the global climate in ye…
An advertising billboard recently featured a picture of a muddied 4-wheel drive vehicle that had been put through its off-the-road paces. The caption read: “A face only a mudder could love.” Which was…
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