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 first CANDU reactor in 1986-87.
Spar Aerospace of Mississauga, Ont. has acquired some of the assets of Leigh Instruments, previously held by Peat Marwick Thorne.
The Security division of Dallas, Tex.-based Dresser Industries has completed its purchase of the Baker Hughes diamond bit product line. With the purchase, the Security division receives all Baker Hughes diamond and PDC inventories, research and development, and manufacturing plants. Those plants are in Houston, Tex. and Aberdeen, Scotland.
Ingersoll-Rand’s construction equipment group headquarters for the Americas has moved to Allentown, Pa. The move will incorporate the group’s executive sales management, credit and financial services, and accounting operations into one location. Previously situated in Parsippany, N.J., the headquarters’ new address is: Ingersoll-Rand Equipment Sales, 954 Marcon lvd., Allentown, Pa. 18103-9553.
Victoria Graphite of Portland, Ont. has commenced installation of its 150-tonne-per-day graphite plant. The modular mill, manufactured by Minpro Ltd. of Mississauga, Ont., is now on site and the building and site prep is virtually complete. The high-grade graphite producer anticipates production to start by the end of November. It is negotiating with several customers to purchase its product.
In response to corporate growth and expanding markets, Tonto Drilling has relocated its head office to 2200 South 4000 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84125. The Canadian drilling operations will continue to be run from the Vancouver and Kamloops, B.C. facilities (Suite 108-4664 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 5T5).
The Marion division of Dresser Industries is supplying a model 8750 walking dragline to the Callide Coalfields coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The dragline, sold by Dresser Australia, will have a working weight of 13.8 million pounds (6.2 million kg) and will be equipped with a 104-cu.-yd. (80 cu.-metre) bucket. The machine’s 420-ft. (128-metre) boom will match the world’s longest, currently being built by Marion for a Canadian coal mine.
Denver Equipment Co. of Colorado Springs, Colo. has shipped the initial consignment oo its large agitators, in excess of six metres in diameter, going into South America. They are to be used at the La Coipa gold project in Chile, being built by Placer Dome for its 50%-owned associate Mantos de Oro.
GEOMATH of Wheat Ridge, Colo. is reducing the price of a complete system of its integrated mining and geological package to US$29,900 for personal computer configurations. Also, basic modules purchased separately are now reduced in price by 25%, with other specific modeling applications reduceceby 10%. As a result, most configurations will range from US$10,000 to $15,000 in total cost.
OSNA Equipment has established laboratories in Denver, Colo. to perform test work on its thickening and clarification products.
Several of the geophysical data interpretation software packages of Interpex Ltd. are being made compatible with the Geosoft Mapping System of Toronto-based Geosoft Inc. Interpex, based in Golden, Colo., has modified EMIX MM PLUS, an HLEM data interpretation and presentation package for IIM PC/XT/AT and PS/2 or compatible personal computers. The package is functionalnder the SUSHI menu system developed by Geosoft. RESIX IP2D, a new package for forward modeling of 2-dimensional induced polarization and resistivity data, will be the next package to be updated with this compatibility feature.
The first of five long-range Harnischfeger electric mining shovels was shipped recently to northeastern India, commencing a multi-million-dollar expansion of an open-pit coal project. The shovels are part of a contract between the Ottawa and Coal India whereby Canada will supply equipment used to increase Rajmahal’s annual output to 9.5 million tonnes from 1.5 million within 5 1/2 years.
GEOMATH of Wheat Ridge, Colo. is reducing the price of a completetsystem of its integrated mining and geological package to US$29,900 for personal computer configurations. Also, basic modules purchased separately are now reduced in price by 25%, with other specific modeling applications reduced by 10%. As a result, m mt configurations will range from US$10,000 to $15,000 in total cost.
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