1987

Drifting to date on the No. 1 shoot east on the 425-ft level at Straw Lake Beach Mines shows it to be of considerably higher grade than the same shoot on the 300-ft horizon where it showed an average …

The Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy’s method of mineral claim- staking (commonly known as paper-staking) will likely form the basis of a new, streamlined system of claim-staking for the cou…

Copper was one of the last metals to recover from the economic recession. But whether today’s higher prices will continue is a big question. Even so, the red metal is finally attracting some attention…

During the past season, exploration of the large mining concession in Labrador, held by Labrador Mining and Exploration Co., has resulted in the discovery of two iron ore deposits believed to have pos…

Ten years ago, at the Exploration ’77 meeting in Ottawa, Allan Spector and Wilfred Parker presented a paper entitled Computer Compilation and Interpretation of Geophysical Data. At that time, the geop…

I have just read your article “Very Refined” in the September, 1987, edition. This article reports on “Canada’s private precious metal refiners — Degussa Canada in Burlington, Ont…. and Johnson Ma…

Galesburg, Ill.-based National Seal Co. has announced a $6.3-million, 2-phase capital expenditure program to boost manufacturing capacity. Featured is the world’s largest flat sheet extruder of hdpe g…

Knelson International Sales of Langley, B.C. has won the 1987 Canada Export Award for Precious Metal Gravity Separators, The awards were announced by Canada’s External Affairs department.

Ecodyne Ltd.’s Graver Water division has appointed Nortec S.G.S. Inc. of Montreal as sales representative for Quebec. Nortec has represented major process equipment manufacturers for more than 10 year…

Scintrex Ltd., a high-tech company based in Concord, Ont., has been awarded the rights to engineer, manufacture and market a portable trace narcotics detector. The detector is the result of four years…

In metal mining circles in Canada, there is a quite widely held opinion that base metal prices are due for a rally toward the first of the year. Some quarters believe that the upturn will be well sust…

William Bondar and Malcolm Clegg chuckle about it now, but the time their Whitehorse assay lab mixed up separate core samples from a customer was really no laughing matter. The samples went into a dry…