1992

The Brenda mine in B.C. was poor in terms of grade – 0.17% Cu and 0.04% Mo. But such poverty spurred Brenda’s technical people to introduce a wealth of technological innovations. Process technology …

CCF PLEDGES TO TAX WEALTHY The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) has considerable prominence as well as third place in the House of Commons. The bit cry of this party, during the war particu…

Before acid mine drainage emerged as the gravest effect of tailings deposits, pockets of the north were afflicted by tailings dust storms. Come a dry spell, a good blow sent up clouds of choking grit…

1. A baseline environmental description should be prepared upon which to measure development impact, reclamation effectiveness and over-all success in meeting reclamation objectives. 2. An inventory…

The domino theory of geopolics held that when a key country falls to communism in a certain region, neighboring countries would eventually, but inevitably, succumb. What with the events of recent his…

The removal of dissolved metals in wetlands (land in which the soil is saturated) may be mediated through a variety of processes, including direct uptake by plants, ion exchange or adsorption on clays…

Only a few years ago, mine closures in Ontario were uncomplicated and inexpensive. Sell the grinding mills and pumps, salvage the mill buildings and haul up the scoops and jumbos and auction them off…

After the lavish banquet of the flow-through years (a memory now, nothing more), Canada’s diamond drillers are eking out an existence on crumbs and scraps. It doesn’t make for a healthy industry. “It…

You’re in select company if you work at a British Columbia mine or mill. And you can count on becoming more select as time wears on. The province has 22 operating mines. Ten are threatened by deple…

Open pit mine operators in British Columbia have fine-tuned their cost-cutting skills to an art. Faced with soft metal prices and rising costs, they survive and prosper by their wits as much as by th…

If mine decommissioning is Issue No. 1 for the mining industry, Rio Algom’s and Denison’s Elliot Lake, Ont. mines will likely become Reclamation Sites No. 1 in terms of public scrutiny. Denison and Ri…

Freewest Resources (TSE) director Robert Buttars profited recently by exercising stock options and then selling the shares at a substantial premium to the exercise price. According to the Ontario Secu…