1988

Over the nex t few years, Canada’s 70 gold producing mines will be joined by at least 10 major new producers and a handful of smaller ones. If gold prices remain high ($530(C) per oz at presstime), th…

When you want to ventilate the deepest levels of a mine or when you’re in charge of mining the highest-grade uranium deposit in the world, you’re pretty well limited to one kind of machine to get the …

I was interested to read the article in the June issue of your magazine entitled “High-Speed Mucking” and especially the portion on the Voest Alpine AL-60 loader. Unfortunately, the writer does not ap…

Talk about a notable lack of success. In Canada, we produce tons of by-product silver, enough to rank us fourth in the world, and the Sudbury Basin coughs up sufficient platinum group metals to make C…

Is mankind doomed to someday walk the earth alone, save for domesticated animals and mutant insects? Will we turn our once “Garden of Eden” into a living purgatory, or even blow ourselves off the face…

The six platinum group metals (PGMs) are elements that possess unique chemical and physical characteristics. Members of the group have been in high demand by jewellers since their discovery in ancient…

Mining companies have been traditionally slow in accepting or adopting new tech nology for predictive maintenance. I helped with the installation of such technology at the first planning and schedulin…

Busy Little Bacteria II: One way to deal with ores which contain gold trapped in the crystal lattice of arsenopyrite is to feed it to microscopic bacteria. These little microbes oxidize the sulphides,…

In 1968, a supposedly stable, near-surface backfilled stope in Timmins collapsed. In 1981, an old stope caved to surface near the town of Malartic, Que., creating a depression 300 ft across and more t…

Not content with simply being Falconbridge Ltd.’s largest single shareholder, Noranda Inc. has increased its ownership of the nickel producer to 16.5% and will probably buy more. After failing once to…

I’d like to know what happened to Aldermac Copper Corp. I understand it was bought by Ascot Metals Corp. in 1949. I’d like to know the name of the present company which took over Aldermac Copper. F. …

After its credibility was severely damaged by operating problems at the Summitville gold mine in Colorado, Galactic Resources (TSE) appears to be back in the good books of at least one British brokera…