What’s New Conveyor Scale
Canadian Scale of Sudbury, Ont. is marketing a new electronic device that measures the amount of material on a conveyor belt with an accuracy of 95% to 98%. Called Kilo-wate, the unit measures the ele…
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What’s New Dependable Assay Furnaces
Williams & Wilson of Scarborough, Ont., which has been manufacturing furnaces for nearly 50 years, has made a number of technical improvements to its assay furnaces. The company’s latest furnaces are …
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Rauma-Repola
Rauma-Repola, one of the largest public companies in Finland, has agreed to purchase the European operations related to the design, manufacture and marketing of crushing equipment of Milwaukee, Wis.-b…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Energy, Mines and Resources Canada
Estimates of Canada’s uranium resources have increased significantly over the past two years, according to Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. New discoveries more than make up for the 25,300 tons of …
Cross-Cuts TIRE POWER
How dangerous are those tires used in some mining industry equipment? Rimex Supply of Surrey, B.C., a wheel manufacturer and distributor, has made a video about safety procedures for handling tires. R…
Core Shack THE WINSTON LAKE DEPOSIT
Winston Lake, 32 km north- northwest of Schreiber, Ont., is a base- and precious – metals – bearing volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit with drill-indicated ore reserves of 3.1 million tonnes gradin…
Profile TWO TESTERS
William Bondar and Malcolm Clegg chuckle about it now, but the time their Whitehorse assay lab mixed up separate core samples from a customer was really no laughing matter. The samples went into a dry…
ON THE MOVE (December 01, 1987)
The new president of Brampton, Ont.-based Marubeni Construction Machinery Canada is Masayuki (Mike) Kataoka. He replaces N. (Bill) Watanube who returns to Tokyo, Japan as deputy general manager of the…
American Pacific takes over Honduras mine
The El Mochito silver-lead-zinc mine in Honduras is back in production after a recent takeover by American Pacific Mining (formerly Westbridge Resources). American Pacific purchased the mine, along wi…
Nevada Capital ups Euro-Nevada holding
Toronto-based Nevada Capital Corp. has acquired, following private agreements, 162,100 common shares of Euro Nevada Mining. In addition to the 1,344,560 common shares and a self administered RRSP owne…
Montreal Exchange Traders more confident
Investor confidence appears to be on the upswing again, judging by the positive results on the Montreal Exchange this week. And benefiting most seem to be the larger mining firms, such as Placer Dome,…
Initial reserves of 500,000 tons reported by Granges, MacMillan
Initial ore reserve calculations at the Granges Exploration-MacMillan Energy Mishi Lake project in northwestern Ontario reveal more than 500,000 tons grading 0.18 oz (cut) gold per ton, the companies …