LAST BUT NOT LEAST….Bruneau raises $540,000
Montreal-based Bruneau Minerals (ME) has raised $540,000 through two private placements. One placement raised $450,000, of which the company plans to spend $360,000 exploring three properties in Quebe…
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Golden trenches for Cathedral (January 17, 1994)
Thirty trenches have been completed across the Hicks shear zone on the Kaburi-Eldorado property in Guyana. Cathedral Gold (TSE) is earning up to a 90% interest and reports that, on average, the trench…
NEWS ROUNDUP — FMC writes down Beartrack
FMC Gold (NYSE) has written down the book value of the Beartrack gold project in Idaho. The gold producer recorded a 1993 fourth-quarter charge of about US$60 million, which includes an asset writedow…
No mega-projects for Amazon basin
Brazil will stop huge development projects in the Amazon basin and turn instead to smaller-scale efforts which are less harmful to the environment, President Itamar Franco announced recently. Franco’s…
Tenajon, Westmin study SB results
Partners Westmin Resources (TSE) and Tenajon Resources (VSE) are reviewing results of underground drilling completed last year on the SB property, near Stewart, B.C. The program, which consisted of 85…
Toronto Stock Exchange Indices (January 17, 1994)
— Week — Jan 11 Jan 10 Jan 7 Jan 6 Jan 5 High Low Composite”300″ 4447.43 4453.21 4420.66 4425.43 4401.08 4456.31 4286.54 Metals&Minerals 3605.15 3666.79 3628.37 3619.51 3594.26 3666.79 3495.59 Integ…
Golden Rule and Manson Creek restructure 1-m-unit financing
A previously announced financing deal between Manson Creek Resources (TSE) and Golden Rule Resources (TSE) has been restructured. Under the current deal, Golden Rule will subscribe to one million unit…
Cadington Resources changes course of business
Cadington Resources (CDN) is hanging up its pick axe to become an industrial and investment holding company. It plans to acquire or merge with businesses which have substantial cash flows and/or under…
PEOPLE — GIANT BAY RESOURCES
Lee Tiong-Hock appointed director.
PEOPLE — INT’L HOMESTEAD (January 17, 1994)
Everett Abbey appointed director.
EDITORIAL PAGE — Engineering some respect
Except for the period of the Industrial Revolution, mining through the ages has seldom been in the good books of society as a whole. The Roman poet Ovid around the time of Christ wrote of those “wicke…
Nymex enjoys a banner year
Metals futures trading in 1993 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) jumped 19% over 1992 activity. The majority of those trades involved platinum futures (up 13%). The number of palladium futur…