AUTOMATED HOISTS
The mine hoisting fraternity in Canada is warming to the idea that micro-computers can control hoisting systems. Noranda has gone the computer control route at its Geco mine, and the company is in the…
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50 YEARS AGO EAST MALARTIC ORE HAS EVERYTHING
The main orebody at East Malartic Mines is shaping up into one of the major gold deposits in the country, judging by results of testing on the first three levels. Calculations show that the orebody ma…
CORE SHACK BOUSQUET #2
The Bousquet #2 stratiform gold deposit, 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and 2 km east of the Bousquet #1 deposit, has ore reserves of 7.1 million tonnes grading 6.4 g of gold per tonne. The deposi…
A DENSE FILL PROJECT
Backfilling methods are certainly garnering plenty of attention these days. At Kidd Creek, the use of fly ash as a partial substitute for mor e expensive cement in backfill has been used successfully….
RESEARCH CHIBOUGAMAU NUGGETS
You may be in for a big surprise if your next drilling project in the Canadian Shield hits a pocket of “salty” brine. That is, you may very well find gold nuggets in that brine. One such nugget, conta…
THE PANEL OPERATION
About 2 billion years ago when this planet was a chilling, uninhabitable place, a pre-Cambrian stream laden with uranium-rich gravels emptied into a lake or inland sea just north of what is today the …
Maintenance: What’s New * * *
** A 3-IN-1 PUMP ** Toyo Pumps North America is selling a new pump that incorporates a diaphragm, hose and piston or plunger. Unlike conventional piston/plunger pumps, where pumping product enters the…
LETTERS IN THE PICTURE
In the January, 1988, issue of The Northern Miner Magazine on page 64, there appeared a picture with the caption “Prospecting the horse-drawn way in New Brunswick.” This picture was taken at a small c…
Editor’s Note SAFETY FIRST
Nothing gives mining a poorer public image in this country than deaths that occur on the job. When they occur, mining fatalities are often played prominently on radio and television and in newspapers …
50 YEARS AGO LAKE DUFAULT ADDS SECOND DRILL
Lake Dufault Mines has moved the second diamond drill on to its property adjoining Waite Amulet in order to broaden the ore search close to the scene of Waite Amulet’s spectacular drill intersections …
Exploration: What’s New DOWN-HOLE PROBES
The objective of geophysical exploration from boreholes is to indicate direction and distance to promising targets. To improve the possibilities for 3-dimensional interpretation of the surroundings, a…
Open-Pit Mining: What’s New CONVEYING POWER
One of Canada’s foremost technology watchdogs has predicted that the surface mines of the 1990s will be so dependent on computer-based technology that manpower will be reduced to one-third of current …