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Mining accounts for 11% of Peru’s gross domestic product and about 45% of total exports, the country’s minister of mines and energy said at a recent meeting in San Francisco. The industry employs more…

The 571 unionized employees at Canadian Electrolytic Zinc (CE Zinc) have voted 89% in favor of a new 3-year collective agreement. Under the terms of the new contract, effective Nov. 1, the average wag…

Drilling on Glimmer Resources’ (VSE) Beatty-Hislop property in northeastern Ontario has intersected a new zone of alteration. The new zone is about 300 metres north of the other known mineralized zone…

The recent purchase of an option on a further 7.5% interest in Taysan Copper, a Philippine company, gives Chase Resources (VSE) control over 67.4% of the Taysan project. On assignment of the 7.5% inte…

A streamlined environmental assessment process, reduced taxes and the elimination of some fees are among measures Newfoundland and Labrador is taking to revitalize its ailing mineral industry. Mines a…

Full-scale gold production is being planned for next summer at the La Colorada project near Hermosillo, Mexico, held by private company Eldorado and a unit of Campbell Resources (TSE). Eldorado, which…

The drop in world metal consumption is adding to miners’ woes as producer and terminal market metal stocks rise to the highest levels in recent years. In reaction, prices are slipping as consumers res…

The game plan of American Barrick (TSE) from the beginning has been to use hard cash to buy partly developed mining properties and then take them into production. Or, the Toronto-based gold producer h…

If the Troilus gold property in northern Quebec gets the go-ahead, it will be one of Canada’s larger mine developments in recent years. It will be the largest gold producer in the Chapais-Chibougamau …

Global competition is making it more evident that corporate Canada has under-invested in its workforce, that Ottawa has poured millions of dollars into poorly focused training programs and that the pu…

I would like to take this opportunity to respond to the article “Jake Epp should resign” (T.N.M. Sept. 21/92) by Steve Parry, speaking in his dual capacities as president of the Porcupine Prospectors …

The active search for diamonds in Canada’s North has sparked interest in Alberta’s mineral potential. The first documented find in the oil-rich province was made in 1988 by Tom Bryant, who discovered …