Eldorado shareholders OK Gencor transaction
Shareholders of Eldorado Gold (ELD-T) and exploration affiliate HRC Development (HDC-V) have approved an equity-for-asset swap with Gencor, a South African-based international mining conglomerate.Eldo…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
ODDS’N’SODS — This gun for hire
The Aunor gold mine, situated four miles from Timmins, Ont., and nestled between two medium-sized producing mines, attracted many job applicants when the 600-ton-per-day mill started up in January 194…
COMMENTARY — Tumbler Ridge does its bit
The author is mayor of the district of Tumbler Ridge, B.C. This letter was sent to every mayor in British Columbia in support of that province’s Mining Week, which ran May 13-19. At the request of Kee…
Scotland to open first gold mine
Scotland will soon join the ranks of gold producers, as Caledonia Mining (CAL-T) prepares to cut the ribbon on its US$11-million Cononish underground gold mine.Situated near the town of Tyndrum in the…
Producer Prices (July 08, 1996)
ALUMINIUM: LME settlement US$1,471 per tonne (July 3, 1996).ANTIMONY: Composite free market, US$2,875 per tonne (July 2, 1996).BISMUTH: Composite free market US$3.54 per lb. (June 28, 1996).CADMIUM: C…
DIAMOND PAGE — Rex Diamonds reports earnings
The sale of diamonds from Rex Diamond Mining’s (REXD-C) South African operations generated revenue of US$16.8 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1996. Net earnings for the period amounted to …
William to buy Brazilian producer
The impending acquisition of a Brazilian company will help establish William Resources (WIM-T) as an intermediate gold producer by 1998, the junior predicts.Having entered final negotiations to buy Ja…
NWT diamond project gets nod from panel
Full approval for the NWT Diamonds project in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories is at hand for BHP Minerals and Dia Met Minerals (DMM-T).The Environmental Assessment Review Panel deter…
COMMENTARY — Helping the Kuna Yala help themselves
Vancouver-based Western Keltic Mines (WKM) recently acquired five concessions in the Comarca de San Blas region of Panama, where a United Nations exploration program in the late 1960s revealed potenti…
Diamond Fields seeks dismissal of suit
Facing a lawsuit by shareholders of Exdiam, Diamond Fields Resources (DFR-T) has asked a Texas court for early discovery hearings to consider a motion to dismiss the action.The lawsuit, brought by two…
EDITORIAL PAGE — What a tangled web
Sophistry — the art of subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation practised in ancient Greece — is alive and well, and being developed in new directions by environmentalists opposed to diamond mini…
THE DIAMOND PAGE — Diamondiferous dykes found at Afridi
Drilling suggests that the DA-1 target at the Afridi Lake property in the Northwest Territories consists of a series of steeply dipping, northwest-trending kimberlite dykes.The largest dyke has a maxi…