Sixteen parties have been granted status before the commission established to investigate the Westray coal mine disaster in Nova Scotia earlier this year. The public inquiry, to begin its hearings Oct…
Trading of platinum and palladium contracts was launched recently by the Commodity Exchange (Comex) of New York. Comex, the world’s largest market for the trading of gold and silver futures and option…
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Research grants totalling $2 million will be used to support resource-related projects for 1992-93. This funding comes from the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) and the Natural …
A television campaign to improve mining’s image and to stress its importance has been launched by Ontario’s Department of Northern Development and Mines. It targets viewers in the Toronto and Hamilton…
Robert Munro appointed president; Ilan Hall and Robert Christie appointed directors.
With the release of additional high-grade lead-zinc-silver values at its Prairie Creek property 300 miles west of Yellowknife, N.W.T., San Andreas Resources (VSE) announced plans to continue drilling …
The coal industry is in such turmoil, the Calgary-based Coal Association of Canada has cancelled its Industry Outlook Symposium for October. A key speaker dropped out when his mining company failed an…
M.R. Brown’s recent column “Warding off `penny dreadfuls,'” (T.N.M., Sept. 14/92) contains many unfounded comments which we find disturbing. It is most difficult to understand how The Northern Miner, …
Popular mining promoter, financier and executive Arthur W. White, who coined the risk capital phrase and raised many millions of dollars which he spent judiciously, died after a lengthy illness. He wa…
David Jackson appointed vice-president, corporate finance.
Larry Bell will act as interim chairman.
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