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Dr Anthony Andrews has been appointed managing director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, succeeding Alan Bossin, who has returned to the insurance industry, in a senior executi…

It was the fourteenth time the 500D helicopter had moved the drill. As the chopper rose into the air, the “long-line” became taut as the pilot pulled up on the collective. The base, weighing about 48…

With current cash position and anticipated operating profits for the last half of the year expected to be more than sufficient to pay for doubling the milling capacity, Pamour Porcupine should pile up…

Sluicing has been used for the concentration of high-density minerals, especially gold, for centuries. It continues to be the predominant mineral processing technique in use for placer gold mining in …

Often when an employee is hired he or she is asked to sign an employment agreement or to agree to comply with the terms of employment. These may be extensive or quite brief, but the odds are they will…

Hope Brook Gold’s heap leach operation was put in place principally to generate early cash flow in the order of $21 million throughout 1987 and 1988. In fact, production from the heap leach has alread…

William Roth has been elected chairman, president and chief executive officer of Pittsburgh-based Dravo Corp. Roth was recently president and chief operating officer at American Standard. He succeeds …

Lifeliner Corp. of St. Louis, Mo., has announced production expansion and new packaging and labeling for Lifeliner/Elbow-patch. Introduced as a means of saving wear-worn metal in the mining industry, …

The orebody at the Hope Brook zone is combined in an altered volcanic silicified sequence about 2 1/2 miles long. The actual Hope Brook formation occurs at the northeast end of this altered zone. It …

The Abresist Corp. has appointed Ray Elbertson as its new sales representative for the East Coast from Virginia to New England. Abresist Corp. is an American manufacturer of abrasion-resistant linings…

The skills, experience and training of maintenance workers should, ideally, be used only for productive, hands-on work. They should move from job to job, knowing exactly what is to be done — with the…

They look like any other factory in one of suburban Toronto’s sprawling industrial parks … until you try to get past the reception desk. Without a coded card, no one can get to the back of the plant…