Dumping on potash What is Potash?
Potash was the name given to the evaporation residue from water leac hing of wood ash. The element potassium was first prepared in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy using electrolysis. Today potash is the ter…
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Norex results
Norex Resources recently acquired all the shares of Triweb Resources for a purchase price of $4 million. Triweb has a working interest in reserves of 860,000 bbl of oil, 16 million cu ft of gas and 16…
Editorial Competitive advantage
From an address by Walter Curlook, Chairman of The Mining Association of Canada, at the Association’s annual meeting in Ottawa: We in the mining industry can show that productivity improvement and saf…
General News & Comment Forum on gold
The Randol Gold Forum 88 is scheduled to take place in Yuma, Ariz., on Jan 23-24, 1988. The conference is the fifth on the subject by Randol International, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the c…
Cove options Nelson mines
Cove Energy Corp. recently announced several corporate developments including options on two former precious metals producers near Nelson, B.C., a private placement with a European financial instituti…
Dumping on potash
With half the world’s potash reserves on tap, enough to supply the world’s needs for the next few millenia, you’d think Canada’s potash industry would be able to sit back and take the long view. Inste…
WHAT’S NEW MILLING EQUIPMENT En Masse Conveyor
Gerber Industries of Minnetonka, Minn., has designed a conveyor that it says simplifies maintenance and improves ease-of-operation. The en masse conveyor features reduced noise, dust, maintenance and …
WHAT’S NEW Open pit equipment Automatic Excavators
When you look for trends in an industry, the lea ders are often the b ig guys. Well, by far the biggest open pit mining operations in this country are Alberta’s oil sands operations north of Fort McM…
Dumping on potash A Flood of problems
Relief from the crushing supply situation facing Canadian potash producers could come this year in the form of an “Act of God.” While the 6.7 million tonnes produced in Canada last year exasperated wo…
WHAT’S NEW UNDERGROUND EQUIPMENT Mining Software
Tony Clark Consulting (Vancouver, B.C.) has acquired the rights to market techbase, a database software system developed by Minesoft of Denver, Colo. The agreement covers British Columbia and “adjacen…
WHAT’S NEW UNDERGROUND EQUIPMENT Management Software
Conspec Controls (Buffalo, N.Y.) is marketing a computerized mine management system capable of scheduling mine equipment maintenance and monitoring various environmental factors such as over- and unde…
Base metal reactivation a success for Brenda
The reactivation of Brenda Mines’ base metal operation near Peachland, B.C., is proving to be quite a success story. Net earnings for 1986 totalled $1.84 million or 40 cents per share and the situati…