“At first we floundered around a bit,” confides the mining executive. A harebrained financing scheme that never stood a chance? A bungled start-up with nothing but one headache after another? A down-i…
In a recent address to the Canadian Tax Foundation, the minister of finance, Michael Wilson, alluded to a proposed general curtailment of tax preferences that enable some high income earners to reduce…
Under a memorandum of agreement, Petromet Resources and Greenstrike Gold Corp. will spend $300,000 each by the end of February this year on the Nova Scotia mining properties of Onitap Resources. Locat…
Wajax Industries is marketing the newest front-end loader from Marathon LeTourneau. Labelled the L-1100, the 1,050-hp loader has a breakout force of 188,000 lb and a payload capacity of 33 tons in a 2…
EOTec Corp. of West Haven, Conn., has developed an asynchronous fibre optic data link that allows different data formats to be selected at each end of the link, providing automatic format conversion. …
The following remarks were heard from people who attended the Mining Automation Symposium, in Sudbury, Ont., Oct 15-16, 1986. We think they provide a good illustration of the diversity of opinion in t…
The Calgary-based mining equipment manufacturer Norcast Inc. has appointed Mark Pipke to regional sales manager. Pipke has held senior positions in the beneficiation area as well as special project w…
John Kuzina has been appointed vice-president of industrial sales for Pall Industrial Hydraulics Corp., based in East Hills, N.Y. He joined Pall Corp. in 1983 as market sales specialist and recently s…
A 3-year agreement has been signed, naming NCR Corp. as the nationally authorized hardware service vendor for Jonas & Erickson’s end-users operating on IBM hardware as well as other peripheral equipme…
Armco Canada and Stelco Inc. have announced the construction of a new manufacturing plant in Kamloops, B.C. — MOLY-COP Canada. Designed to produce forged, heat-treated grinding balls up to five inch…
Ingersoll-Rand Canada of Montreal, Que., has appointed Wajax Industries as its authorized distributor for underground drilling equipment throughout Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
Dresser Construction & Mining Equipment’s new vice-president, marketing, for mining machinery products is William Graessle. He will be responsible for product management, field sales and market suppor…
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