ON THE MOVE Swing Stage Clima
A new safety division of Scarborough, Ont.-based Swing Stage Clima has been formed, to be headed by Sean Burke. Burke has 12 years of experience working on safety committees, such as csa, the Scaffold…
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ON THE MOVE Eldorado Nuclear
The federal Crown corporation Eldorado Nuclear has elected L. George Bonar as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Bonar has extensive international experience, having held senior manage…
ON THE MOVE Newmont Mining Corp.
Newmont Mining Corp. of New York City has announced the appointments of John Johnson, Jr. as vice- president; Timothy Schmitt as vice-president and controller; and Graham Clark, Jr. as vice-president …
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– MYSTERY OF RADIUM AND ITS RAYS
One of the first questions of visitors to the radium laboratory is: “What does radium look like?” Imagine a small glass tube, the size of a match, partly filled with a gray powder; that is the picture…
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– QUEBEC TRYING TO APE MEXICO?
Deep indignation, and talk of reprisals, has been aroused in Ontario over Bill No. 5 which has received its third reading in the Quebec legislature and which may be proclaimed law on Friday of this we…
ON THE MOVE U.S. Dept. of Energy
Scott Campbell has been named director of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Policy, Planning and Analysis.
50 YEARS AGO –APRIL, 1937– THREAT OF OUT- BREAK MINIMIZED BY
The possibility of strikes at northern Ontario mines was definitely minimized by leading mine managers who were interviewed this week by The Northern Miner in the course of a survey of the situation a…
Acadia moving a 3rd drill to east-coast Mooseland property
Indications are that the Mooseland could be the next gold property in Nova Scotia to warrant an underground exploration program. A third drill is being moved onto the Mooseland property, located 45 mi…
Firm forecasts price of gold
Know what the price of gold will be in a year or 18 months’ time? You don’t have a clue? Well, Martin Murenbeeld thinks he does. Mr Murenbeeld is president of M. Murenbeeld & Associates Inc., a Toront…
Pundata reports elevated values
Elevated gold values in 46 of 57 samples taken from property in Nevada have been announced by Pundata Gold Corp. The best assay shows 2.38 oz gold per ton, 3.53 oz silver, 0.128 oz platinum and 0.228 …
Saskatoon meeting
An international symposium on crystallization and precipitation, ISCAP ’87, will take place in Saskatoon, Sask., Oct 5-7. Organized by the hydrometallurgy section of the Canadian Institute of Mining a…
Editorial Uranium and B.C. bureaucrats don’t mix
If ignorance is bliss, then the bureaucrats who rule Lotus Land are blissful indeed. British Columbian bureaucrats, who have let a seven-year uranium exploration and mining moratorium to expire in Feb…