The National Mining Hall of Fame in the U.S. will welcome eight new members at its seventh induction banquet Sept. 18 in Phoenix, Ariz. For the first time since the inaugural banquet in 1988, two of t…
A longtime employee and former president of Texasgulf, Richard Mollison, died recently of cancer. He was 78. A native of Minnesota and a graduate, in mining engineering, of the University of Minnesota…
Described as a prospector, minefinder and entrepreneur, Arthur Stollery died recently. He was 80. A graduate in 1939 of mining engineering from Queen’s University, he is credited with playing a key ro…
A former employee at Cominco’s Sullivan mine operations, Charles Allan McLeish died recently in Kimberley, B.C. He was 93. A native of Irvine, Alta., he graduated from the University of British Columb…
CDN-listed Pangea Goldfields has received conditional approval to begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with final approval expected within the next four weeks. Also, the company has acquired m…
A healthy rise in the Canadian dollar and a stable bank rate helped shore up the TSE over the 5-day report period ended Aug. 9. The composite 300 index closed down 7.46 points to end the period at 4,1…
Work is continuing on the 10,400-hectare property held by Flag Resources near Sudbury, Ont. A large magnetic body, thought to represent the western sector of the Wanapitei anomaly, was found near the …
Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $378.30 – $0.30 Silver* $ 5.16 – $0.05 Platinum* $412.50 – $2.00 Nickel** $ 2.59 – $0.16 Lead** $ 0.25 – $0.01 Copper $ 1.08 – $0.02 Zinc $ 0.42 – $0.01 Courtesy of Scot…
Construction can now begin on the Kodiak heap-leach gold project at Golden Bear mine in northwestern British Columbia. North American Metals (VSE) received the required mine development certificate fr…
Second-quarter production at the Copper Rand and Portage projects near Chibougamau, Que., increased by 45%, compared with the same period in 1993, MSV Resources (ME) reports. Quarterly output of 104,0…
A contract for engineering and construction management of the concentrator, tailings storage and associated infrastructure at the Troilus gold project north of Chibougamau, Que., has been awarded to S…
The junior partners of Kennecott Canada saw their DO-27 (Tli Kwi Cho) kimberlite project downgraded in early August from a development project to one of many exploration-stage projects in the Lac de G…
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