The golden key?Collaboration between Anaconda Mining and Memorial University could unlock narrow-vein gold deposits around the world

Collaboration between Anaconda Mining and Memorial University could unlock narrow-vein gold deposits around the world

By Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

August 22, 2019

Testing of the SMD method at Anaconda’s site in northern Newfoundland will continue into the fall. Courtesy of Anaconda Mining

Five years ago Allan Cramm, vice-president of innovation and development at Anaconda Mining, met Stephen Butt, a process engineering professor at Memorial University and head investigator for the school’s Drilling Technology Laboratory, to discuss drilling issues at one of Anaconda’s gold mining projects in Newfoundland.

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