Val d’Or option deal
An option to earn a 50% interest in 22 claims adjacent to the Bardome zinc deposits in Quebec’s Barraute and Fiedmont twps., has been acquired by Ressources Val d’Or (ME) from Noranda (TSE). To earn i…
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COATS (over-the-counter) Drilling near Campbell
With the intention of finding extensions of the Campbell mine orebody, Craibbe-Fletcher Gold Mines has proposed an underground drilling program for 1991. Placer Dome has decided to clear out the 2,000…
PEOPLE YORKTON CONTINENTAL SECURITIES
Frank Giustra appointed president; Anthony Williams appointed head of European operations.
Taylor purchases shares of Biron Bay Resources
Leonard Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Biron Bay Resources (ASE), says 664782 Ontario, a company of which he is a controlling shareholder, recently acquired 31,600 Biron Bay common s…
Brunswick’s success at depth could revive base metal camp
A single drill hole intersection near Brunswick Mining and Smelting’s (TSE) No. 12 mine has raised hopes in this picturesque province that large massive sulphide deposits are waiting to be found at de…
PEOPLE SILVERSIDE RESOURCES
Babu Gajaria elected president succeeding A.L. Hellans who resigned; K. Sethuraman, vice-president succeeding M. Graham who resigned. Bernie Kahlert appointed a director.
St Andrew on target with Stock Twp mine
Production is on target at the Stock Twp., Ont., gold mine of Toronto-based St Andrew Goldfields (TSE) despite recent drops in the price of gold which have taken a heavy toll on most junior mining com…
Muscocho seeks new financial backing
J.T. Flanagan, president of Muscocho Explorations (TSE), says efforts are continuing to secure alternative financial arrangements following the collapse of an earlier agreement with Echo Bay Mines whi…
Dolly gets financing
A private placement of $1.05 million will give Dolly Varden Minerals (VSE) the funds it needs for 50,000 ft. of diamond drilling on the company’s Kitsault Valley, Stewart area property. The placement …
Canadians study Soviet technique for exploration
Canadian mineral explorationists are getting a close look this summer at a Soviet geophysical exploration technique. Since first broaching the subject during a trip to Moscow in 1983, Harold Seigel, p…
News in brief Wkay Resources
Wkay Resources (WKA:VSE) has changed its transfer agent to Montreal Trust Co.
BRIEFS Oldest miner dies
A former coal miner regarded by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest man recently died in Wales at the age of 112. John Evans, whose birth certificate recorded an Aug. 19, 1877, birth da…