As increasing numbers of companies join the exodus to South America, opportunities to obtain properties with high mineral potential are decreasing quickly. This development is particularly true of cou…
A dozen companies operated 17 talc mines in eight states in 1993, the U.S. Bureau of Mines reports. Most of the domestic talc production was from open-pit mining operations; underground mining was use…
Historically, Coeur d’Alene Mines (NYSE) has been associated with Idaho and the prolific silver mines of its namesake district in that state. But these days — with operating mines in Nevada and New Z…
Wollastonite has been mined in New York state since the 1940s. The two companies currently mining the mineral in the state are NYCO Minerals and R.T. Vanderbilt. The NYCO deposit in Essex Cty. contain…
Previous mining of mercury deposits in the northern California Coast Range mercury belt has become the source of environmental geochemical concerns. Occurrence of metals in the surrounding rock, soil,…
According to Statistics Canada, absenteeism will cost Canadian employers more than $10 billion in 1993. Two out of three employers that A. Foster Higgins surveyed at the end of 1992 also indicated tha…
Plans for restarting its open-pit mine at McLeese Lake in east-central British Columbia, as well as ongoing feasibility work on the nearby Mt. Polley project, have not kept Gibraltar Mines (TSE) from …
Realizing that there are other prolific areas for nickel and copper mineralization outside Canada, nickel-producing giant Inco (TSE) has acquired interests in a number of international projects. Inco,…
We hired many newly arrived immigrants during the early years of mine development and production at Elliot Lake, Ont., in the fast-developing world uranium centre during the 1950s. Numerous sturdy Ita…
Financing for the Refugio gold project in Chile is finally in hand for joint owners Bema Gold (TSE) and Amax Gold (NYSE). Bema has been looking for financing to develop Refugio since early 1991, with …
— 1994 — Aug 9 Aug 8 Aug 5 Aug 4 Aug 3 High Low Composite”300″ 4186.82 4175.36 4168.54 4202.09 4206.05 4609.93 3518.31 Metals&Minerals 3902.51 3892.36 3922.46 3982.58 3985.31 3996.08 3273.56 Integra…
Construction of a new gold mine on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been approved by joint-venture partners Newmont Gold (NYSE) and P.T. Tanjung Searpung of Jakarta. The US$131-million project wi…
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