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David Shaddrick appointed director.

Anthony de Werth appointed president and chief executive officer.

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Nov.5/96 (change from previous week in brackets):Copper121,175(-11,175)Tin9,820(-255)Lead116,275(-825)Zinc541,025(-3,350)Al…

Charles Tatnall appointed president, director and Andrew Galloway appointed director.

Fred Hewett appointed president and chief executive officer and Donald McLeod appointed chairman.

Emil Leimanis appointed director.

Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) and HDRK Mining Research are the joint recipients of the 1996 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine for inventing an instrument used to detect loose rock in mines.In tests, th…

Rio Algom has donated $200,000 to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Elliot Lake, Ont., for the creation of a palliative care trust named in honor of Lawrie Reinertson, the company’s former president who died o…

The bulk sampling program at the Blina project of Kimberley Diamond (KDC-V) has yielded 42 diamonds thus far.The project is situated in West Kimberley, South Africa.Kimberley recovered one stone weigh…

Saskatoon-based Shore Gold (SGF-A) has recovered diamonds from two kimberlite pipes at its 75%-owned Fort la Corne property in Saskatchewan.Four geophysical targets were subjected to a total of five d…

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Junior Sulliden Exploration (SUE-M) has entered into an agreement with two Peruvian companies to acquire the 8,800-ha Huaquillas gold project in northern Peru.The Rouyn-Noranda, Que.-based company mus…