WHAT’S NEW Bigger Buckets on Cat Loaders
Four new models of Caterpillar wheel loaders deliver increased horsepower and rimpull for improved performance, over four former models, the company reports. Larger-capacity buckets with bolt- on edge…
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A BREAKNECK PACE K.L. Tailings
Production was scheduled to have started in mid-November on a tailings retreatment project in Kirkland Lake, Ont. Gold mine tailings have been deposited in nine separate tailings areas here over the p…
A BREAKNECK PACE Dumagami
For Dumagami Mines’ gold property near Cadillac, Que., two key drill holes finally put to rest any question that this property had the potential to become a producer. The first hole, at a vertical dep…
A BREAKNECK PACE Murray Brook
Construction could begin by next May on an open-pit gold and silver mine, 45 miles west of Bathurst, N.B. The federal government has kicked in $5.4 million in the form of loan insurance to help cover …
Editor’s Note AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD
Elliot Lake was a boom town in 1956, the impetus for which was essentially the United States’ need for a secure supply of the yellow powder that had so convincingly and tragically ended the Second Wor…
A BREAKNECK PACE Isle Dieu
The official opening of Noranda Minerals Inc.’s Isle Dieu mine, near Matagami, Que, is scheduled for September. Discovered in May, 1985, the rich zinc deposit, grading 17.78% zinc, 1.03% copper, 2.34…
50 Years Ago January 1938 LAMAQUE TAKING UP SLACK OF TECK- HUGHES
Lamaque Gold Mines is running neck and neck with Teck-Hughes and, during 1938, the new mine may overtake the parent organization in production rate and earning power. That’s what is revealed in a comp…
Profile ENGINEERING A TRADITION
He is an affable, part-time hobby farmer from southern Ontario, a tall, trim man with a greying pate and an avuncular air. In appearance and manner he seems just too nice and easygoing to be running o…
A BREAKNECK PACE Golden Bear
The rugged Dease Lake area of northern B.C. will soon be the site of a new gold mine when the Golden Bear property, owned by North American Metals and Chevron Canada Resources, starts producing the ye…
DEBUNKING A MYTH
Small junior mining companies have often been credited with outperforming senior companies in mineral exploration. It is widely believed that the juniors have found more mineral deposits than the seni…
Ketza River A BREAKNECK PACE
Canamax Resources is growing at an impressive clip. Last year the Bell Creek mine, in northern Ontario, shipped its maiden dore bar. This year, its Ketza River project, in the Yukon, and the Kremzar d…
A BREAKNECK PACE Hope Brook
In what is easily one of the mining success stories of 1987, Hope Brook Gold brought into production its Newfoundland mine — the only operating gold mine in the province. What’s more, the operation i…