Canmine aims to restart plant
AGRA Simons has been retained by Canmine Resources (CMR-T) to investigate the feasibility of resuming production at the hydrometallurgical cobalt extraction plant and refinery in Cobalt, Ont.The initi…
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River Gold turns quarterly profit
Although earnings are down, River Gold Mines (RIV-T) remains in the black.For the three months ended Sept. 30, the junior earned $306,000 on revenue of $9.3 million, compared with $2 million on $9.9 m…
Expansion unlikely for Brewery Creek
Heap-leach recovery problems have contributed to a production shortfall of 20,000 oz. at Viceroy Resource’s (VOY-T) Brewery Creek gold mine in the Yukon.Production during the first nine months of 1999…
Wolverine sulphides treatable: study
Following a $200,000 metallurgical study, Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) and Atna Resources (ATN-T) have concluded that selenium-rich mineralization at the Wolverine massive sulphide deposit in the Yuko…
CORRECTION (November 22, 1999)
Our issue of Nov. 8-14 contained incorrect information regarding the price paid by Viceroy Resources (VOY-T) to purchase the 60% interest in the Paradones Amarillos deposit it did not already own.Echo…
Claude jumps into the black
Despite lower gold prices, Claude Resources (CRJ-A) earned $1.3 million (or 4 cents per share) during the first nine months of the year, compared with a loss of $300,000 (1 cents per share) in the cor…
Hang up the hard hat . . . Put on an apron
Bugs are important to ecosystems (though we’ll never be fans of blood-sucking mosquitoes and flesh-eating black flies), but are they always more important than people?Environmentalists opposed to the …
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