News Roundup — Excellon gains copper project
Junior Excellon Resources (VSE) has entered into an agreement with privately owned Columbia Metals Reactivation, allowing it to earn up to a 50% interest in the 12,000-acre Guerrero Ranch property in …
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News Roundup — Golden Briar seeks prospects near Sudbury
Golden Briar Mines (ME) is acquiring 128 claims near Sudbury, Ont.The property lies within the Wanapitei gravity-magnetic anomaly, a gabbronorite complex being explored by several junior companies. Ju…
Pangea options Tanzanian property to Ashanti
Immediately south of the Bulyanhulu gold deposit in northwestern Tanzania, Pangea Goldfields (TSE) has optioned a 213-sq.-km exploration concession to Ashanti Goldfields.The option agreement will see …
Dakota bullish on Stibnite’s potential
Drilling has intersected gold mineralization at the Stibnite mine near Yellow Pine, Idaho.Dakota Mining (TSE) reports that 8,000 ft. of reverse-circulation drilling cut mineralization over a strike le…
Final assays surface at Nugget Pond
Underground drilling has ceased at the Nugget Pond gold project near Baie Verte, Nfld., and a new reserve is being calculated.The figures will be incorporated into an ongoing final feasibility study, …
New zone adds to Rainbow
Encouraged by results from the Rainbow property in southern British Columbia, partners Teck (TSE) and Getchell Resources (VSE) will undertake a third phase of drilling.The property is a few kilometres…
Canarc tests Guyanese property
A second phase of drilling is under way on the Ianna property in Guyana.Canarc Resource (TSE), which can earn up to a 65% interest from Roraima Gold (VSE), is testing the bulk-tonnage potential of the…
Companies (December 04, 1995)
INDEXAg ArmenoAmax GoldAmer Min FldsAnvil Range MgAristaAshtn Mg of CdaAtnaAur ResourcesBarrick GoldBHP Min.Bre-XBreakwaterBreseaCambiorCamphor VntrsCanarcComincoCons Ramrod GldCoral GoldDia…
Arista to acquire Kremzar deposit
Arista Resources (VSE) will acquire the Kremzar gold project northwest of Wawa, Ont.The deposit lies on the northern limb of an anticlinal sequence of metavolcanics. It is stratigraphically above a hi…
Eight new inductees to Mining Hall of Fame.
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame will induct eight individuals at its annual dinner on Jan. 8, 1996, in Toronto.Established eight years ago, the Hall honors legendary mine-finders and mine-builders wh…
Production costs up for Royal Oak
High cash operating costs took some wind out of the sails of Royal Oak Mines (TSE) during the first nine months of 1995.The company earned $19.5 million (or 17 cents per share), on revenue of $153.1 m…
PEOPLE — GEOMAQUE EXPL.
Jon Morda appointed vice-president and chief financial officer.