Turkish copper project of Cominco Resources nears feasibility stage — News item Goldbelt Mines looks to two former Soviet republics for joint venture projects — News Item Falconbridge Ltd. to close …
Noted in a parking garage, appropriately mounted on a gold-colored car, was this personalized license plate: DIG4 AU. In these times of a depressed gold price battling to hold US$350 per oz., it is re…
The potential to discover large-tonnage, heap-leach gold and porphyry copper deposits that are minable by open pit in Chile is prompting a small contingent of junior companies to examine the South Ame…
The downward trend in exploration spending in Saskatchewan, apparent since 1988, appears to have flattened and 1992 expenditures are expected to match those for 1991, Saskatchewan Energy and Mines rep…
Pacific Cassiar (TSE) says it has received approval to amend its normal course issuer bid to purchase on the open market through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange up to 10% of the public fl…
In an effort to streamline its mining legislation and create an attractive investment climate in the province, the government of Manitoba is expected to proclaim a new Mines and Minerals Act in 1992. …
Mining’s current slump once again testifies to the traditional cyclical nature of this feast or famine business, depending of course on the price of metals. But stock markets are something else. Here,…
What exploration needs most in Canada is a good discovery, says Fenton Scott, President of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. At a time when juniors are having trouble raising even …
When visiting mining operations and mineral exploration offices in North America, one is often struck with the high level of automation of the tasks performed by the draftperson, geologist and mining …
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is trying to raise $5 million to finance construction of an earth sciences gallery. The museum says it has been about 12 years since it had such a facility, and it …
Compared with 1981, Canada’s reserves of copper, nickel, zinc and silver in 1991 were down by about one-third. They dropped by almost 40% for lead and were off by 65% for molybdenum. Although reserves…
The second phase of an undergrund exploration program at the Sleeping Giant gold project 40 miles north of Amos, Que., has been extended, Cambior (TSE), the operator, and Aurizon Mines (TSE) report. M…
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