1990

The following items are offered for your edification or entertainment. Zaire has long been a major copper producer, first under Belgian colonial rule and, since the 1960s, under independent rule. But …

Today, most people share a peculiar “either/or” attitude toward environmental protection; people can be concerned about either the rights of business or protecting the natural environment. Consequentl…

What moves on all fours, stands Wso tall that even basketball Wplayers can walk under it, and sports a pea-sized brain (relative to its mass, of course)? Well, certain types of dinosaur would have qua…

Nova Scotia started down the path of energy self-sufficiency through coal many years ago and it appears the path also leads to the U.S. export market. The Nova Scotia Power Corp. has conceived a plan,…

The mine engineering consulting Tand contracting establishment Tin Canada was built around the strong entrepreneurial, pioneering spirit of several mining men. That spirit was characterized by a willi…

Papua New Guinea, the West Pacific paradise, is quietly becoming a player to reckon with in the international gold mining scene. It can boast three mines in the top 10 of the world’s biggest annual pr…

In the article “Fire Down Below” (NMM, Feb/90), one case history mentioned was that of a haulage truck which “caught fire because a worn transmission hose leaked and sprayed transmission oil on to the…

With the government of Quebec backing it, the Asbestos Institute is appealing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa) ban on the use of asbestos. The full effect of the U.S. ban on importing, m…

Recycling is nothging new to mining. For some time, opportunists have turned to old mine dumps and tailings for new sources of ore. Abandoned mines are often rejunenated for another go-round at profit…

I was shocked by the first paragraph of your editorial (“Blessing or Curse?”) in the October, 1989, issue. To read these comments in a newspaper is understandable, but in an otherwise good mining trad…

The following is from a speech by John Larche, past president of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, delivered in Thunder Bay, Ont., in February: Essential to the health of our industr…

Bacteria Cellulose A chemical has been created using an advanced biotechnological process involving a strain of bacteria that produces cellulose. The resulting product, called Cellulon, has properties…