1991

At least 1,500 claims have been staked in the Sewell Brook area of north-central New Brunswick since the discovery of a massive sulphide lens there last fall. As drilling on NovaGold Resources’ (TSE) …

Kelso Resources Ltd. (KLS:VSE) has changed transfer agents to Pacific Corporate trust Co.

Infill drilling at the Louvicourt Twp. massive sulphide project of Aur Resources (TSE) and Societe Miniere Louvem has resulted in a slight increase in undiluted preliminary reserves. But otherwise the…

The week ended April 2 saw the price of gold bullion remain sluggish at US$359 per oz. as the yellow metal continued to suffer from a lack of speculative demand. Despite the lacklustre gold price, Gol…

Investors welcomed in a new month in an optimistic mood, with both the market portfolio and mining and minerals index posting gains for the holiday-shortened week ended April 2. The former moved up by…

I am told that in the Kirkland Lake gold mines of the 1940s, there was resistance to the newfangled jackleg or pusherleg drill that Atlas Copco had just invented. Resistance appeared on two fronts. Wo…

I am disgusted at the attitude displayed in your editorial entitled “Our Man at Thompson” [see December 1990 issue]. The licence that you took describing the city of Thompson in the way that you did i…

Raise reamers designed and manufactured by Machines Roger International of Val d’Or, Que. have entered the market. The first machine was the V-30, capable of reaming an 8-inch pilot hole to 30 inches …

Not new to the overseas aggregates industry, but a relative newcomer to Canada, is the Barmac crusher, distributed by Wajax Industries of Markham, Ont. Developed and manufactured in New Zealand, this …

CANADIAN MALARTIC DOUBLES ORE Another substantial increase in ore reserves, leading to consideration of plans for expansion of milling facilities, has been the principal feature of results at Canadian…

In the previous Law article, The Environmental Audit (see our January, 1991 issue), we left the corporation and its directors with a completed environmental audit that pointed out both actual and pote…

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi (1874-1937) first successfully transmitted over the English Channel in 1899 and across the Atlantic in 1901. Only pulse transmisssions were possible at the time and it was r…