SUPPLIERS’ NOTES Kent Process Control
New Jersey-based Kent Process Control, a manufacturing company known for developing such process control instruments as chart recorders and flow-meters, has ex panded its U.S. headquarters. Kent has m…
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Better Resources builds reserves
Better Resources has come up with a drill- indicated reserve estimate for its Mt. Washington gold property on Vancouver Island. The reserves include some 194,700 tons at 0.23 oz gold and 0.99 oz silve…
Annual Coal Review 1987 COAL REPORT FORDING
With its head office in Calgary, Fording Coal employs about 1,300 personnel in Alberta and British Columbia. Established in 1968 to devel op coal re serves in the Fording River Valley, the company bec…
CROSS CUTS TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
Last year the south face of the Afton open pit mine, near Kamloops, B.C., experienced what is known to mine engineers as a “severe toppling failure.” In other words some 7.3 million tons of rock broke…
Seadrift to drill on three prospects LD
Vancouver-based Seadrift International Exploration has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Macanda Mine Exploration, a private Ontario company, from its three shareh…
Mistango results prompt larger drill program
The results of a small drilling program by Mistango Consolidated Resources on its Laval Twp. property near Sioux Lookout, Ont., have prompted the company to plan a major program. The four holes inters…
Alberta Stock Exchange Alberta Stock Exchange Noheco moves up 30
Good trading in shares of Naneco Resources added more than 30 cents to the issue, which was up to $2. Naneco expects to make a production decision this year on the Johnson Gulch project in South Dakot…
SUPPLIER’S NOTES Harnischfeger P & H
Harnischfeger P&H of Milwaukee, Wis., has released a pocket-size brochure with concise reference data on 21 popular models in the company’s line of mining equip ment. Basic machine specs and operating…
Analyst predicts 100,000 oz Silidor could be a major mine
The Silidor gold deposit, within the city limits of Rouyn-Noranda in northwestern Quebec, has been put at the top of Noranda’s list of probable mines. Noranda Exploration President John Harvey says pr…
SUPPLIER’S NOTES Fenvessy & Schwab Inc.
New York City-based Fenvessy & Schwab Inc. has been restructured in an attempt to focus on asset redeployment and the addition of major new principals , the comp any says. Rolf Genssler has been elect…
The Graduating Class 1987 GOLD REPORT MACLELLAN
SherrGold Inc.’s MacLellan mine, Snear Lynn Lake, Man., is the hands- down winner of the “Most Fiesty Mine of 1986” award. And for good reasons. Not only w as the decision to put the gold deposit into…
Annual Coal Review 1987 COAL REPORT DEVCO
Among the highlights of the 1986 activities of the Cape Breton Development Corp. (devco) were: steady progress in the development of t he new Phalen mi ne; a major expansion of the corporation’s coal …