Uncertainties related to working in Papua New Guinea and other parts of Southeast Asia have prompted Yamana Resources (YRI-T) to cancel plans to make Union Mining a wholly owned subsidiary.Yamana, whi…
Aluminium: LME settlements US$1,547 per tonne, alloy $1,444 per tonne (April 8/97).Antimony: Composite free market, US$2,200 per tonne (April 1/97).Bismuth: Composite free market US$3.11 per lb. (Apri…
Sunshine Mining & Refining (SSC-N) posted its second consecutive quarter of record production at its namesake mine in northern Idaho.In the first three months of 1997, Sunshine cranked out 901,000 oz….
Shareholders of Santa Fe Pacific Gold (GLD-N) will meet in a special meeting on May 5 in Albuquerque, N.M., to discuss a proposed merger with Newmont Mining (NEM-N).Newmont and its 91%-owned subsidiar…
Vancouver-based NovaWest Resources (NVE-V) is optioning five additional properties in the Raglan nickel-Copper-platinum camp on the Ungava peninsula of northern Quebec.The newly acquired properties co…
Sur American Gold (SUR-A) has postponed its recently announced $8.55-Million financing in light of the ongoing market turmoil surrounding Bre-X Minerals (BXM-T).The financing, along with $2.4 million …
The first wayward trickle from the ill-fated Summitville gold mine led to a flood of environmental and legal controversy — and it’s not over yet.Canadian lawyers representing Robert Friedland (inset)…
Heap-leach gold operations in Central America will be discussed at a luncheon hosted by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum, to be held at 12 noon, Thursday, April 17 at Toronto’s…
Arauco Resources (ARU-V) has acquired full ownership of the George Lake gold project. Incorrect information appeared in our issue of March 31.
There were many tales told at the Busang property in Kalimantan, Indonesia, but one that might have a grain of truth was the story of the over-educated “egg-head” geologist sent by a major mining comp…
Vancouver-based Diagem International Resource (DGM-V) has released production figures from the Juina alluvial diamond operation in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state.Production of diamonds in March was 11,723…
A recent letter from Maurice Brown (T.N.M., Jan. 27/97) may not contain the right information on projects operated by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in foreign countries.I was a …
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