Conference focuses on reclamation
A symposium entitled “Reclamation in the Rockies” will be held Sept. 22-25 at the Inn of the South in Cranbrook, B.C.The event is being co-sponsored by the Canadian Land Reclamation Association and th…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Mining a boon to Colorado’s coffers
Mining contributed, both directly and indirectly, a total of US$7.6 billion to Colorado’s economy in 1995, according to a recent study.In a report entitled Everything Begins with Mining — Mining and …
DIAMOND PAGE — River Ranch gets financing
A new financing will enable the operators of the River Ranch diamond mine in Zimbabwe to repay some debt.The joint-Venture company, owned equally by Toronto-based Redaurum (RRK-T) and Auridiam Consoli…
DIAMOND PAGE — Buyers pay top dollar for United Reef gems — CAR diamond project expansion continues
Toronto-based diamond producer United Reef (URP-T) has sold 1,440.5 carats of diamonds from its Mbala mine in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) for just under US$300,000.The average selling price …
DIAMOND PAGE — Serengeti Diamonds picks targets from data
Geophysical consultants for Serengeti Diamonds (SGD-V) have reprocessed data gleaned from airborne geophysical surveys flown over Tanzania by the South African firm Geosurvey between 1979 and 1981.Ser…
Brigadier explores in Hearst Twp.
An old prospect on a splay of northeastern Ontario’s Larder Lake Break will be stripped and sampled by newly listed Brigadier Gold (BRIG-C).The Benson Creek property is on Highway 624, just southwest …
Ashanti doubles resource in Tanzania
African miner Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) has released a new resource figure for the Geita gold project in Tanzania.Based on recent drilling along the 4.5-km trend of mineralization, the resource at Ge…
OBITUARY — Colin Macaulay
Colin Macaulay, a former vice-Chairman of Rio Algom, has died. He was 66.Born in Montreal, Que., Macaulay graduated from McGill University’s engineering program with a bachelor’s degree in 1954 and a …
DIAMOND PAGE — New Russian company to mine diamonds
Almazy Rosii-Sakha, Russia’s largest producer and exporter of rough diamonds, has formed a company to develop kimberlite pipes in the Nyurba district of Yakutia.Alrosa-Nyurba was set up to mine two di…
Producer and dealer prices (August 04, 1997)
Aluminium: LME settlements US$1,661.50 per tonne, alloy $1,470 per tonne (July 29/97).Antimony: Composite free market, US$1,950 per tonne (July 28/97).Bismuth: Composite free market US$3.70 per lb. (J…
GeoNova ups Discovery resource
GeoNova Explorations (GNE-M) has boosted by 33% the estimated resource of the Discovery zone at its contiguous Desjardins and Borduas-Martel gold properties, 45 km north of Lebel-sur-Quvillon in north…
Eastmain aims drills at Quebec
Junior Eastmain Resources (ER-T) will begin an 8,000-Metre diamond drill program on three properties situated along the Eastmain River greenstone belt, 800 km northwest of Montreal, Quebec.At the Clea…