1991

It was not a banner year for silver in 1990. The price of the precious metal fell to 14-year lows late in the year on weakened investor and industrial demand. It may now be silver has nowhere to go bu…

It’s a good bet armchair critics this year will scrutinize Placer Dome’s Mt. Milligan project, north of Prince George, B.C. It is the country’s biggest potential gold/copper producer, ranking in size …

David Nicholls is a geologist in the mines technology department for the Manitoba division of Inco Ltd. His immediate responsibility is to provide computer support to the exploration group, including …

It has become fashionable to blame the flow-through tax rules for the excesses that led to the mine development failures of the 1980s. But this is not entirely fair. My colleagues and I were in the un…

The metal-mining industry will soon establish an International Council on Metals and the Environment, a global response to mounting pressures for better health and environmental protection. “This is t…

Randolph Diamond (1891-1978) Metallurgist who created the world’s first successful large-scale differential flotation operation, which unlocked the zine-lead treasures of B.C’s Sullivan Mine. John Ham…

Environmentalism, weak equity markets, an economic downturn, global competiton and a desert war. No question, Canadian mining faces obstacles. The following, a response to our questionnaire on the pag…

“The role of new firms in innovation is important not only for its direct contribution but for its implicit threat to older firms, which might not otherwise feel impelled to take the risks of innovati…

MUCKING MADE EASIER Eimco Corp. of Salt Lake City, Utah, has developed a mucking machine, the “Tunneloader,” which is not only much larger and more powerful than any of its present models, but also em…

To gain an insight into current maintenance practices and procedures at operating mines, The Northern Miner Magazine recently conducted a maintenance survey of 30 medium-sized underground operations. …

The article “the refractory Riddle,” in your August, 1990 issue, was a very comprehensive compilation of information on the subject of recovering gold from arsenopyrite . . . Or was it? One point not …

Viola MacMillan is among nine new inductees to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. MacMillan, 88, was renowned as a mine-finder and financier and was instrumental in transforming the Prospectors & Devel…