Words, words, words
There is a mystique about the mining industry in the minds of laymen, due in large part to the specialized terminology of the industry. So it is with law. Certain lawyers preen themselves with the use…
1990
Our Man At Thompson
Generally, little is heard of that other Inco — the nickel operations 400 air miles north of civilization and known as Thompson, Man. When it was announced in December, 1956 in The Northern Miner new…
The uniqueness of Eskay
Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…
Checking it twice
The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…
Cross-Cuts (December 07, 1990)
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Ontario Mining Association Chairman Andy Rickaby, addressing a lunchtime crowd in downtown Toronto to kick off Ontario Mining Week (in mid-October), points out the uses to whic…
What’s new
North Safety Products Rexdale, Ont.-based North Safety Products is selling two new items: an improved Model 9880 air-purifying respirator and the LSF 2075 style full-body harness. The respirator is eq…
Supplier’s notes
Scintrex Ltd. of Concord, Ont. has been awarded C$2.7 million in contracts by Romenergo, Romania’s second Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor. Scintrex supplied simlar equipment for Romania’s f…
Thompson – The other INCO
Inco Ltd. is spending heavily to secure its future in Thompson, Man. In addition to the C$108 million already committed to the 1-C orebody at the main Thompson mine, Birchtree reactivation and the Tho…
50 years ago – December, 1940
DEMAND FULLY MET Robert Stanley, president of International Nickel Co. of Canada, reports that all war and ordinary demands are being fully supplied. He adds that none of the company’s products is bei…
Calendar (December 07, 1990)
Jan 7-11, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Hydrothermal Alterations. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 8-12, Ren…
VSM, launches new drilling program on Grevet zinc bet
Encouraged by a new discovery on optioned property about five kilometres southeast of their Grevet zinc project near Quevillon in northwestern Quebec, VSM Exploration (TSE) and Serem-Quebec have launc…
News In Brief Uranium price slips
U.S. uranium exchange company Nuexco reports that the exchange value of uranium (U/c3h/O/c8h/) fell in October to its lowest level ever in constant 1990 dollars, slipping US$1.75 to US$8.35 per lb. Th…