Athabaska results encouraging
Assay results have been reported for three more holes from Athabaska Gold Resources’ (VSE) Nicholas Lake property 60 miles north of Yellowknife, N.W.T. High grade gold veins in the Main zone were test…
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Delta Gold gets funding
Initial discussions with bankers, brokers and consultants as to the viability of funding the building of one of the world’s largest platinum mines are meeting with success, Delta Gold NL says. In a fe…
Monique Exploration
Monique Exploration (ME) reports it has pulled off the market its prospectus for flow-through financing worth $1,266,000. Monique, formerly Monicor Exploration, planned to use the funds for exploratio…
Sampling results from Ontario Graphite property
Initial results from a sampling program on the Timmins graphite property were released by joint venture partners, Black Hawk Mining (TSE) and Lodi Metals (VSE). The samples were taken from two trenche…
Cross-Cuts WILL COPPER COME A CROPPER?
Energy, Mines and Resources Canada estimates that Canada’s copper production will begin to fall off sharply in about five years, unless a whopping new find is unearthed very soon. Writing in the Septe…
International banks loan Cameco $650 million
Cameco — A Canadian Mining and Energy Corp., has arranged a $650-million loan with a consortium of 11 Canadian and foreign banks. The cash will be used to repay promissory notes issued at the time of…
Scintrex opens service centre in China
In 1988, Scintrex completed negotiations with the People’s Republic of China which resulted in the opening, on Oct 14, of a service centre for Scintrex instrumentation, in co-operation with the China …
BREAKING NEW GROUND ANSIL
A new mine is gearing up for production during the first quarter of this year in northwestern Quebec and — believe it or not — it is not a gold property. Rather, it is the massive sulphide Ansil co…
International Baron signs deals at three U.S. plays
Vancouver-based International Baron Resources (VSE) has followed up its $400,000 initial offering by signing option agreements on three United States gold properties. In the first, International Baron…
BREAKING NEW GROUND BEAUCHASTEL
More than half a century after it was first known to contain gold mineralization, the Beauchastel property, near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is about to become a producer. The property’s owner and developer,…
Claude to proceed at Seabee
Claude Resources (TSE) has decided to proceed to final mine feasibility on its Seabee gold project in northern Saskatchewan. The decision follows a review of prefeasibility studies completed by A.C.A….
Editor’s Note A WELL-KEPT SECRET
People who trumpet their achievements loudly and long tend to get a might tedious after a while. Industries commit the same petty crime sometimes. In mining, fortunately, we have modest, self-effacing…