1987

When, in 1968, bush pilot and prospector Bob Baker spotted a mineral-stained creek in northwestern Alaska, he reported the unusual observation to the U.S. Geological Survey. Little did he know he had…

By the time you read this, the Ontario Court of Appeal may have handed down one of the most important decisions ever made by a Canadian court concerning the mining industry — Lac Minerals vs. Interna…

When Cominco’s new lead smelter at Trail, B.C., opens in early 1989, it will mark substantial completion of a half-billion-dollar modernization of the world’s largest zinc-lead metallurgical complex. …

Gold is becoming increasingly important to Teck Corp. bringing the company full circle to its early history as one of Canada’s largest gold mine operators. The “new” Teck emerged in 1963, the golden a…

Teck Explorations will undertake five major programs in 1987 in North America, plus “whatever else comes along,” says President John May. Two of these are former Teck producers (one in Newfoundland, t…

People often assume porphyry copper deposits in British Columbia average less than half a percent copper. They sometimes throw in a little bit of molybdenum just for good measure. The situation is dif…

The new president of the Association of Professional Geologists and Geophysicists of Quebec (apggq) is France Goupil. An engineer and geophysicist, Goupil won the Dominique-Rollin Award of Excellence…

The Deister Concentrator Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., has completed two agreements with Sala International AB, of Sala, Sweden, for manufacturing and marketing of Deister’s Flotaire Flotation Cell in wor…

For 50 years the Lamaque mine in northwestern Quebec turned out enough gold — more than 4.5 million oz — to make it Quebec’s biggest gold producer. Today, little more than a year since the decision …

When Teck Corp. put together an international consortium to buy a controlling interest in Cominco Ltd., it was not so much a story of David toppling Goliath as one of David simply looking out for his …

By just about any measure, Teck Corp. is the model mining company of the 1980s. The foundation of the com pany’s future is its low-cost, long-life orebodies. They are the envy of the mining world, di…

British Columbia’s Highland Valley area was one of the worst-hit mining districts in the country when the recession of the early 1980s brought lower metal prices. However, a restructuring of the three…