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Northern Abitibi acquires Que. options from Kinross

Alberta-listed Northern Abitibi Mining (NAMC) will acquire a portfolio of properties in Quebec from Kinross Gold (TSE). Kinross currently holds these properties under option from Falconbridge (TSE). I…


Akiko working to revive Utah’s Tintic mining camp

The numerous old headframes and mine dumps scattered throughout the Eureka area stand as monuments to the rich history of the Tintic mining districts, 70 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah. Through t…


Diabex cuts two gold intervals

On the Desjardines property in northwestern Quebec, Diabex Resources (ME) has intersected two gold showings with one drill hole. The hole was drilled to test two geophysical anomalies associated with …


ODDS’N’SODS — Preserving Bruce Mines

A mining-tourism project has been under way during the past few years in the town of Bruce Mines in northern Ontario. Other than some small “Indian diggings” at Mamainse and Alexander Henry’s 30-ft. e…


Nevada’s `School of Mines’

An elementary school in Henderson, Nev., is trying to interest students in mining through construction of the “McCaw School of Mines.” Funding, materials and manpower are being donated to the 4,649-sq…


Canadian record in raise boring

Raise bore crews of Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada have set a Canadian record. The site of the feat was the Trout Lake mine in Flin Flon, Man., belonging to Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. A 16…


CLAIMS in Kirkland Lake

The mining recorder’s office in Kirkland Lake, Ont., has become the ninth provincial site to offer electronic access to information on mining claims. This has been made possible by the expansion of th…


Drills turning at Damoti Lake

The first three holes of a planned 60-hole program on the Damoti Lake property in the Northwest Territories has expanded the Horseshoe-Pyrite gold zone. Consolidated Ramrod Gold (TSE) extended the str…


RTZ, Freeport-McMoRan partnership in Indonesia

An agreement with Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE) and its offspring, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE), sets the stage for RTZ (NYSE) and its subsidiary, RTZ America, to become involved in exploration and…



Downhole analysis focus of meeting

An April 7 meeting in Toronto on the subject of “advancing downhole geochemical logging technology” will be hosted by the Mining Industry Technology Council of Canada (MITEC). Guest speakers will be P…


OBITUARIES — Martin Morrice

A senior geologist for MK Gold, Martin G. Morrice, died in Panama when the airplane in which he was travelling crashed. The plane, a twin-engine Seneca, was chartered to carry Morrice from Penonome to…


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