Careers (June 28, 1999)
Startup: TanzaniaBarrick’s wholly owned subsidiary, Kahama Mining Corporation Limited (KMCL), is currently recruiting qualified individuals for their operations in Tanzania, where conventional undergr…
News
BASE METALS — Nord banks on Johnson Camp project
Nord Resources (NRD-N) has picked up the past-producing Johnson Camp copper mine in southeastern Arizona at a time when the price of the red metal is at a 10-year low.The company issued 1.6 million sh…
BASE METALS — Billiton expands Newfoundland portfolio
London-based Billiton International has expanded its Newfoundland exploration portfolio by inking a deal with Rubicon Minerals (RMX-V) to acquire either the Point Leamington or Lewis Lake properties.O…
BASE METALS — Atna, Expatriate rethink metallurgy at Wolverine — Partners consider consolidation with Cominco’s Kudz Ze Kayah
At the Wolverine massive sulphide deposit in the Yukon, parters Atna Resources (ATN-T) and Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) are considering alternative metallurgical approaches that would enable them to p…
SUPPLIERS ROUNDUP — Hatch given thumbs-up Down Under
Toronto-based consulting firm Hatch has been retained by Queensland Nickel to improve the performance of its Yabulu refinery in Australia.The 25-year-old refinery currently produces 30,000 tons nickel…
Canaco drills Lady Pond
Zinc and copper minerals are the focus of a drill program under way at the Lady Pond property, near Springdale, Nfld.Canaco Resources (CSE-M) is testing two parallel, 800-metre-long conductors that we…
IMF gold sales would harm struggling economies
The International Monetary Fund’s proposal to sell 10% of its gold to assist debt relief would harm, rather than help, some of the world’s poorest nations, says the World Gold Council.The New York-bas…
BASE METALS — Partners start work at Duck Pond — First phase to include 20-hole drilling program
In yet another illustration of the rebirth of exploration in central Newfoundland, a drilling program, now under way, could blow a decade’s dust off two base metal deposits that have been inactive sin…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — ODDS ‘N’ SODS — In record time
I recently had the privilege of renewing contact with George and Lois Jewett and the family of Merv Upham. I first met them in the 1950s, during the glory days of the development of ten uranium mines …
LETTER TO THE EDITOR — Reader disputes Pakeagama Lake claims
We note with interest the recent exchange of letters between John Cumming and Donald Bubar in the June 14-29 issue of The Northern Miner, regarding the claims made for the Pakeagama Lake pegmatite dis…
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