OBITUARIES — Roger Pemberton
Roger Pemberton, former director of geophysics at Noranda Exploration, has died. He was 64.Mr. Pemberton, a registered professional engineer, graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a ba…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Golden Shamrock is optimistic over Siguiri
Toronto-listed Golden Shamrock Mines has received a positive feasibility study for its 70%-owned Siguiri I project in Guinea, West Africa. The remaining 30% of the project is split between the governm…
Drilling institute seeks cost-cutting ideas
The National Advanced Drilling and Excavation Technologies institute is requesting proposals for projects that would reduce drilling costs.The institute is a research and development consortium suppor…
U of T gets donation from Lassonde
The University of Toronto will establish the Lassonde Program in Geological and Mining Engineering, following receipt of $5 million from Pierre Lassonde, president of twin companies Franco-Nevada Mini…
Copperstone’s Boleo copper-gold project is taking shape in Mexico
With more than 3,000 metres of a planned 4,000-metre winter drill program complete, Copperstone Resources (VSE) is testing the continuity of thickly mineralized beds on the Nuevo Lucifer concession at…
ODDS’N’SODS — Peckish in the bush
In the halcyon days before the Great Depression there was no shortage of summer jobs in the mining industry, and, as a second-year geology student at the University of Manitoba in 1929, I was looking …
OBITUARIES — Arthur Honsberger
Arthur Hess Honsberger, former chief engineer of the Howey gold mine near Red Lake, Ont., has died. He was 90.After earning a mining and metallurgy engineering degree from Queen’s University in 1927, …
Placer Dome options Goldstack
Sphinx Mining (VSE) has announced that Placer Dome (TSE) has made a joint-venture offer on the Goldstack property, owned equally by Sphinx and Consolidated Goldstack International Resources (VSE). The…
Mink finds pipe in West Africa
Follow-up test-pitting on a geophysical anomaly at the Kenieba concession in Mali, West Africa, has confirmed the presence of a kimberlite pipe.Mink Mineral Resources (VSE), which holds a 49% interest…
DIAMOND NEWS ROUNDUP — Ashton, Soquem ink deal in Quebec
Together, Vancouver-based Ashton Mining of Canada (TSE) and Quebec Crown company Soquem will explore for diamonds in Quebec.The two firms have signed a joint-venture agreement regarding 185,000 sq. km…
Meetings (March 25, 1996)
April 1, Rembrandt Gold — general, extraordinaryApril 2, Madrona — annual, general, specialApril 2, Mark Resources — annual. 2:20 p.m. The Westin Hotel, Britannia Room, 320, 4th Avenure S.W. Calgar…
Correction (March 25, 1996)
A report on Stellar Gold’s (VSE) agreement to acquire two nickel properties in the Philippines incorrectly stated the terms of the acquisition.Stellar will issue 1.5 million shares to the vendors to e…