Feds table blueprint to aid Canadian mining
Minister of State for Mines Gerald Merrithew has unveiled here a new federal mineral policy, which presents a 6-point program designed generally to help get the mining industry in Canada back on track…
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Metals snips
Gorham International has published its fourth study on asbestos and asbestos replacements since 1980, An Assessment of Asbestos Replacements: Economic, Performance and Technical Considerations. Despit…
Books in Review New book on gold investing
Looking to make more money from gold investments? You might do worse than read a new book on the subject, The Complete Book of Gold Investing, by Jeffrey A. Nichols. The book is published by Dow Jones…
Total Erickson shopping for another acquisition
With no bank debt and a $10-million line of credit, Total Erickson Resources is looking for a new acquisition in either the oil and gas or mineral sectors. President Jean-Pierre Januard also told the …
Alaska placer mine enters fourth year of operations
A $150,000(US) development drilling program has begun at the Valdez Creek placer gold mine in Alaska, and stripping operations are expected to get under way there in early June. The work program opens…
Belmoral workers return to job
Workers at the Belmoral Mines mill and mine at Val d’Or, Que., have agreed to a new two-year monetary package after shutting down operations for a couple of days with a work stoppage. The 265 workers,…
New gold mines set to produce
Thirteen new gold mines that are expected to start up this year in the United States will add more than a half-million ounces of production capacity to that country’s annual gold production, the Metal…
Sunrise gold property optioned to Noranda (head)
Sunrise Metals Corp. (vse) has optioned its Mayfair gold property in the Atikokan-Fort Frances area of northwestern Ontario to Noranda Exploration Co. Under the terms of the agreement, Noranda can ear…
COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES N.Y. Mercantile Exchange
Week’s High Low Close Change PLATINUM (in US$ per oz.) May 614.00 614.00 614.90 — 2.30 July 627.00 615.00 619.90 — 3.30 Oct. 633.00 622.00 …
Obituary J.S. Thomson
J. S. (Jim) Thomson, a mining engineer who was active in British Columbia’s Bralorne gold camp as well as in Newfoundland, the Yukon Territory and the Hemlo, Ont., gold camp, died recently at Tsawwass…
Throughput climbs for Rhyolite Res.
A small gravity concentrator is operating at Rhyolite Resources’ Texada Island gold property northwest of Vancouver. President John Bissett says that throughput has increased gradually and now average…
Mets project calls for $1.1 m.
A $1.1 million exploration program is scheduled this summer on the Mets project of Manson Creek Resources and Golden Rule Resources in the Toodoggone area 160 miles north of Smithers, B.C. Their 1986 …