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 …
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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 …
UNDERGROUND WHAT’S NEW HIGH-SPEED MUCKING
Diesel load-haul-dump machines (better known as LHDs or simply scoops) revolutionized underground base metals mining in the early 1960s. Their main advantage was the flexibility they offered. In the l…
Cross-Cuts GOLDEN BUNGLE
Everything was quiet around the Delnite mine property on the night of June 2, 1950. The staff from the gold refinery office had long since cleared out and called it a day. Not 50 yards away in a house…
SUPPLIERS” NOTES
Joy Technologies of Kitchener, Ont., has booked an order valued in excess of $12 million for the supply of 10 electrostatic precipitators to Chemetics International of Toronto. The units will be inclu…
DRILLING: WHAT”S NEW WATER-JET DRILLS
With financial assistance from the National Research Council, a small, publicly listed industrial research company in Toronto is aggressively pursuing Canada’s hard-rock drilling and bolting market. T…
LETTERS Interpreting Failure
Your article “The Value of Failure” by William Stanley in the February issue says a great deal about Canadian business and the Canadian banking system. The previous bank manager of the unnamed bank i…