Publications (December 01, 2001)

New Compendium of Mining Suppliers

The Canadian Association of Mining Equipment & Services for Export has made an initial distribution of the 2001/02 CAMESE Compendium of Canadian Mining Suppliers.

This 180-page, magazine-format book, produced by Canadian Mining Journal, contains useful information about the dynamic, technologically-advanced, environmentally-sound suppliers that help keep Canadian mines among the most efficient in the world. Profiles of over 250 of Canada’s prime suppliers of mining equipment and services are included, as well as an index to permit easy cross-referencing for readers searching for sources of particular goods or services.

Much of the material in the Compendium is also available on the Internet at the association’s web site at www.camese.org

To get your own copy, contact CAMESE at 101 – 345 Renfrew Dr., Markham, Ont., L3R 9S9, tel: 905-513-0046, fax: 905-513-1834, e-mail: minesupply@camese.org

New gold deposit model for the North American Cordillera

A publication by Christopher Ash, PGeo., presents new insight into the setting and characteristics of gold deposits in the North American Cordillera, which are closely associated with mafic-ultramafic rock suites. Although many of these types of deposits have been mined for over 100 years, their genetic relationship to ophiolitic rocks has not been documented or well understood before. Many have been, or still are, significant gold producers in major gold mining camps.

In Ophiolite Related Gold Quartz Veins in the North American Cordillera, the author presents detailed observations on the setting of lode and placer gold occurrences in proximity to ophiolitic rocks. The proposed model concisely defines the characteristics of gold occurrences associated with these rocks and presents new details and interpretations of the geology in the Atlin area, within the Cache Creek Terrane, as well as in the Bralorne-Pioneer, Rossland, Barkerville and Cassiar areas of British Columbia. There are also comparative discussions of the setting and nature of the Alaska-Juneau deposit, and the California gold deposits such as Grass Valley and Motherlode.

Bulletin 108, B.C. Geological Survey, ISBN 0-7726-4376-8. The 140-page soft-cover bulletin is available for $40 plus taxes and shipping from Crown Publications Inc., Tel: 250-386-4636 or visit www.crownpub.bc.ca

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