When rock mechanic engineers try to design safe underground repositories for the storing of spent nuclear fuel bundles, they strive for sophisticated and reliable methods of predicting induced damage….
Opawica Explorations has issued a statement of claim in the Supreme Court of Ontario against Falconbridge Ltd. and Minnova Inc. claiming, among other things, an accounting, damages and the reconveyanc…
Following the completion of a $2.1-million underground exploration program on the Eastmain project, partners Placer Dome Inc and MSV Resources are expected to reach a production decison by May. Locate…
A $500,000 diamond drilling program has begun on property held by Bresea Resources in the Casa Berardi area of Quebec. The drilling is a follow-up to two years of surface exploration which included 30…
Mining in Canada is changing. And fast. For years “mining,” to the average Canadian, conjured up images of grizzled prospectors pounding on rocks somewhere in the vast north, searching for a mineral d…
The computer blast model SABREX (Scientific Approach to Breaking Rock with Explosives) is a powerful new tool that can give miners the optimum bang for the buck. To highlight the role of all relevant …
Colomac, located 137 miles north of Yellowknife, N.W.T., contains proven and probable reserves in Zone 2 of 16,027,000 tons averaging 0.064 oz gold per ton in a fractured and altered quartz-feldspar p…
Underground exploration at the snip gold project in northwestern British Columbia should begin sometime in February, says Cominco Ltd., the operator. Delaware Resources will fund the $4.5-million prog…
The Jolu gold property in northern Saskatchewan is head ing for production in 1989, with the operator of the project, Royex Gold Mining, currently making plans for a 450-ton-per-day mill. Toronto-base…
I read with interest James Borland’s recent article on “Environ mental Detente” (November, 1987, issue). It was gratifying to see Roy Aitken, Ian Smyth, and Dave Morton man as signators of the joint t…
Metallurgical tests completed on rock fron Vista Mines’ Rio property have returned encouraging results. Material sampled from the 225-ft level had a composite head grade of 0.24 oz gold per ton. Direc…
An option agreement under which Sigma Mines (Quebec) may acquire a 50% interest in the Ligneris gold property of Vior Inc. is nearing completion, Vior reports. The two companies signed the option agre…
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