INNOVATIONS Revolutionary Reamer
Most mine engineers have heard, one way or another, about the development in Quebec of a new way to drive raises in underground mines. Tests have shown the method is faster and less expensive than con…
News
WHAT’S NEW Articulated Dumper Milestone
Vme Group has delivered its 14,000th articulated dumper — which is more than those of all other manufacturers in the world combined, the company says. Vme’s Volvo bm articulated dumper line was first…
MANAGING Synergy or antagonism
Would you ask your local plumber to prepare your income tax return? Would you want your teeth drilled by the local gas station attendant? Of course not. In both cases, it’s obvious the person wouldn’t…
ORE HORIZONS The Egerton-McLean deposit
The Egerton-McLean gold deposit on Pan East Resources’ Fifteen Mile Stream property is in Halifax Cty., N.S., about 62 miles northeast of the city of Halifax. The deposit is estimated to contain drill…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES STARTCO ENGINEERING
Startco Engineering, of Saskatoon, Sask., is setting up distributors across Canada for its ground-fault and motor protection units. They include: Universal Sales, Dixon Electric, WESCO, EECOL Electric…
RESEARCH Pautomation
Imagine this: a potash mine in which the operator of a large continuous-mining machine is seated at a remote console contained in a climate-controlled, ergonomically-designed, mobile control pod conne…
WHAT’S NEW Underground Scaler
A new, low-profile scaling machine has been introduced by Teledyne Canada Mining Products. The ds-25 Scaler it consists of a Teledyne hydraulic breaker mounted on a single 6-m hydraulic boom which is …
WHAT’S NEW A first for linear screens
A linear screen, manufactured by Ore Sorters (North America) of Colorado, has been installed in a Newmont gold mine in the U.S. The Newmont plant is the first on this continent to use the screen, acco…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES KAISER ENGINEERS
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Engineers has signed a licensing agreement to serve as the exclusive supplier of new technology to dry sub-bituminous coals. The process reduces the internal moisture in t…
LETTERS Large Zinc Deposit
It was interesting reading the letter in the August, 1987, issue from Kelvin Pankiw concerning large zinc deposits. I should like to draw your attention to the Howard’s Pass deposit near the Yukon-Nor…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES DEER & CO.
Deer & Co. reports net income of $25.5 million(US) or 38 cents per share for the third quarter of its 1987 fiscal year vs. a restated quarterly net loss of $33.8 million or 50 cents per share last y…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES THE HARNISCHFEGER INSTITUTE
The Harnischfeger Institute, in New Berlin, Wis., is offering trainin g programs on P&H Bucyrus-Erie and Marion electric mining shovels. The programs are conducted at the customer’s mine and are desig…