Suppliers’ Notes (December 01, 1988)
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…
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Profile FIT TO LEAD Corona Corp.’s Peter Steen
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 RISE OF CORONA
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…
EAST MEETS WESTRAY
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…
On The Move (December 01, 1988)
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’…
Cross-Cuts ARCTIC ANXIETY
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…
Editor’s Note LEAN AND CLEAN
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…
50 Years Ago EMERGENCY POWERS AN IRRITANT
The emergency powers under which U.S. President Roosevelt, if he desires, can revalue the American dollar down to 50 from its present 59.1 mark, expire June 30. The Wall Street Journal editorially d…
What’s New THE FINNISH LINE
Normet Canada Another Finnish mining equipment manufacturer has set up shop in Canada. The latest company to be welcomed to Sudbury, Ont. is Normet Industries Canada, whose Finn parent has manufacture…
50 Years Ago THE NORTHERN MINER SISCOE DRILLS OFF 19TH LEVEL
Siscoe Gold Mines is embarking on a large and exhaustive campaign of diamond drilling on the 19th level at a depth of 2,475 ft, The Northern Miner learned on a recent visit to the property. The main s…
Core Shack ANOTHER LA RONGE PRODUCER
Located 75 miles north of La Ronge, Sask., the Rod gold deposit hosts proven and probable ore reserves of 626,928 tons grading 0.386 oz gold per ton in a quartz vein within a shear zone. The deposit, …
CORONA’S NEVADA GOLD A clean heap leacher comes on-stream
The state of Nevada is widely Tknown as a gaming mecca. It’s Talso a magnet for gamblers of another sort — gold explorationists. For example, since 1979, at least 30 heap leach gold mines have been p…