LAW Joint ventures
As most people connected with the mining industry know, the joint venture is a creation of the tax system and therefore cannot possibly be either simple or straightforward. In fact some people find it…
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ON THE MOVE ARK ENERGY
Vancouver-based Ark Energy has appointed geologist Stanley Sandner as mine manager of the McKinney gold mine project. The mine is 20 miles northeast of Osoyoos in southern British Columbia and is own…
50 YEARS AGO –OCTOBER, 1937– Canada’s potential is larger,
Recently returned to Toronto from Russia, Percy Hopkins, consulting geologist, remarked that he was greatly impressed with certain aspects of the Soviet mining situation. But he was not greatly impres…
CROSS-CUTS The mystery of the white finger
Boart Canada’s Rockdrill division is funding research into the phenomenon known as “white finger disease” with specific reference to the use of drilling equipment. The $24,000 research project will be…
PROFILE Two heads are better
Had her husband been born 20 years later, Anne Flanagan is convinced that, instead of making his name as half of Canada’s most successful mineral exploration team, he would have been an astronaut. “Te…
Stillwater runs deep
Last year platinum prices reached $682(US) and demand hit a record hi gh of 2.4 million oz. The result? A handful of Canadian entrepreneurs scrambling to get a foothold on the many geological terrains…
ON THE MOVE ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT AND MINES
The Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines has appointed Sheila Liard as mining recorder for the Sault Ste. Marie mining division. Liard, former mining recorder in Timmins and Kirkland Lak…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES MASTER BOND
A new, one-component, heat-curable epoxy adhesive called Supreme 3ND has been introduced by New Jersey-based Master Bond. The system offers both high shear and high peel strength when cured. Tensile s…
WHAT’S NEW A robot survey instrument
Geodimetrics ab of Sweden has developed a monitoring system for detecting the risk of wall failure in open pit mines. Marketed in Canada by Geodimeter of Canada, the system consists of a survey instru…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES ISM KREBSOGE
International Sintered Metals of Guelph, Ont., has been acquired by Sintermetallwerk Krebsoge gmbh, a West German- based manufacturer of precision sintered metal components of the automotive and other…
CROSS-CUTS Missiles for mines
Manitoba engineers and scientists are using bacteria, rockets and computers in the war against unsafe, uproductive and uprofitable mines. The new techniques are being studied under a $25-million resea…
ON THE MOVE CANADA INVESTMENT CAPITAL
Canada Investment Capital (cic) has named Ernest Woodcare as president and chief executive officer of the explosives businesses it plans to acquire from the Du Pont Co. and Du Pont Canada. Woodcare h…