1989

At these prices, it’s a steal. We’re talking about solid gold frying pans. “Pure unalderated gold would make a superb frying pan because it diffuses heat more evenly than iron or copper. Being chemica…

If the existing rate of gold output is maintained for the last six months of 1939, Canada’s gold production should pass the 5-million- oz mark for the year, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. …

In the June, 1989, issue we featured two articles which dealt, in varying degrees, with reserve estimation for mineral deposits. (See Three Solitudes by Norman Champigny and And Now the Bad News by Ke…

Four heap leachers are establishing themselves in the northern Black Hills area of South Dakota. Wharf Resources, with its Annie Creek and Foley Ridge pits, is the elder statesman. The others — MinVe…

Often the things I write about Oare the very things I’m strugOgling with. This article is a particularly tough one. As I consider what has been termed the “mid-life crisis” and the implications of ea…

The ingenious and complex chain of companies that De Beers has set up to market diamonds worldwide has been called the most successful cartel of the century. The Central Selling Organization (cso) was…

A mechanically attached wear protection system called Kwick-Lok has been introduced by esco of Port Hope, Ont. It is designed to reduce abrasion in fel buckets, shovel dippers, chute liners, face shov…

In the picturesque Black Hills of South Dakota, heap leachers are learning at an accelerated pace what mining companies across the continent are discovering: people want action on environmental concer…

“Welcome to Fantasy Island,” says the neatly- lettered sign on the road from the Colomac airstrip to the bustling site near Steeves Lake in the Northwest Territories. And skeptics believe this really …

A novel man-cooling system has been introduced to the mining industry by Vortec Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio. The system consists of a helmet with attached cape for body, a vest which distributes cool ai…

Mineral Processing engineers attending the International Conference on Autogenous and Semi-Autogenous Grinding (sag) in Vancouver this month will no doubt be interested in speaking with a representati…

The only commercially available preparation available for skin burns caused by hydrofluoric acid is being marketed by Pharmascience Inc. of Montreal, Que. H-F Antidote Gel is a calcium gluconate gel t…